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Miscellaneous and revisited games

 

This site invites you to discover games from the Ancien Régime (and a few more recent ones) with highly refined rules that, after being played for a long time, eventually fell into oblivion. Of all these games, the finest are without doubt Trictrac among the table games, and the game of l'Hombre among the card games.

  
Latest article : Dominoes (origin, development) - June 24, 2025

Literature related to games and little-known authors
  Dom Joseph Cajot, In Praise of the Ass, 1769
Social satire
  Joseph Méry, The Arbiter of Games, 1847
Short poems about games
  Joseph Méry, Poems on Chess, 1836
A tribute to de la Bourdonnais

  

 

1.   Table games

  

Games
Comments
Published
Updated
 
A cult game of the Ancien Régime
Video 
21/01/2003
30/10/2021
 
The free encyclopedia Contribution to the encyclopedia
   
09/04/2007
30/10/2021
 
Another way of playing Trictrac
   
09/04/2007
30/10/2021
 
Literature : a well-reasoned game of chance!
   
01/02/2006
31/10/2021
 
Literature : Prosper Mérimée
   
03/01/2005
24/12/2021
 
Literature: Regnard
 
20/01/2005
24/12/2021

The little Trictrac
 
20/07/2004
24/12/2021
 
A close relative of Backgammon
  
25/08/2003
30/12/2021
 
Revertier modernized in Sweden
  
10/10/2006
30/12/2021
Jacquet    The postilion!

The go-to café game until 1970
  
19/08/2003
29/11/2021

For the youngest players
 
13/10/2003
23/05/2022
 Tourne Case    

With only 3 checkers
 
14/10/2003
26/12/2021
  
With 3 dice
 
16/07/2004
24/12/2021
  
Libro de los juegos (13th century)
4th game
 
11/09/2010
30/11/2021
  
Libro de los juegos (13th century)
9th game
 
13/01/2022
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Libro de los juegos (13th century)
11th game
 
18/11/2018
26/11/2021

 

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2. Card games

 

Games
Comments
Published
Updated
   
 
A cult game under Louis XIV and Louis XV
   
12/11/2003
15/03/2022
 
  
Table including Quadrille and the Médiateur
    

30/11/2004
24/12/2021

 
 
The game of l'Hombre played today in clubs in Denmark
 
16/09/2006
24/12/2021
 
 
Molière's version with 36 cards and its successor with 32 cards.
 
18/03/2009
20/12/2021
 
 
Piquet, Triumph, and... Trictrac
 
05/01/2022
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A simplified version of the Imperiale
 
02/01/2022
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A highly subtle "loser wins" game
 
24/01/2008
20/12/2021
 
 
A game of chance played under Louis XIII and Louis XIV
 
07/06/2009
20/12/2021 
 
 
A greatly simplified version of the old Lansquenet, dating from around 1840
 
27/10/2011
17/12/2021
 
 
A betting game fashionable under Louis XIV
 
21/01/2011
30/10/2021
 
 
A variant of Bassette
 
21/01/2011
31/10/2021
 
 
In its original form, an introduction to Bridge
 
01/06/2010
08/12/2021
 
 
A kind of Whist for six players, with spoken bids
 
17/03/2012
16/12/2021
 
 
Sizette when there are only four players
 
17/03/2012
16/12/2021
 
 
The anti-Whist, a French game created to try to rival Whist
 
03/06/2010
16/12/2021
 
 
Another anti-Whist, another curiosity
 
28/04/2022
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Cliques play an important role in it
 
19/09/2011
27/10/2021
 
 
A 17th-century game, the origin of the name of the famous Poker hand
 
20/12/2011
15/12/2021
 
 
A Brelan where things heat up
 
21/12/2011
16/12/2021
 
 
A combination of raising games played under Louis XIV
 
06/04/2010
14/12/2021
 
 
Yellow Dwarf is the best known of these
 
04/08/2008
08/12/2021
 
 
A hoc game, with bidding based on Piquet-style announcements
 
19/02/2009
12/12/2021
 
 
The oldest known rules
 
05/08/2008
08/12/2021
 
 
A two-player patience game
 
19/04/2010
12/11/2021
 
A major game in the history of card games, with very permissive rules
 
25/10/2003
06/12/2021
 
A variant devised from the Brusquembille rules mentioned in 1779
 
03/09/2011
07/12/2021
 
An evolution of Brusquembille with Marriage
 
04/09/2011
07/12/2021
 
An evolution of Brisque preceding Bezique
  
13/09/2011
07/12/2021
 
 A simplification of Briscan and improvement on Brisque. A great success
  
01/11/2011
07/12/2021
 
Comparative tables of the various games directly descended from Brusquembille
 
03/11/2011
07/12/2021
 
A marriage-type game for four players in two crossed partnerships
  
21/10/2011
12/12/2021
 
 
A simple game suited to children
An improvement on the game of War 
 
15/01/2022
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A simple game, forerunner of the more poetic Butterfly
 
21/08/2003
25/11/2021
 
 
For children and their parents. The Italian Scopa is a descendant of Butterfly
 
07/12/2003
26/11/2021
 
 
It is the inventor of the concept of the trump card
 
02/06/2004
15/11/2021
 
 
Another way of playing Triumph
  
02/06/2004
15/11/2021
 
 
Triumph, one against all
 
03/12/2010
16/11/2021
 
 
An evolved version of Triumph
 
17/07/2004
27/10/2021
 
Mouche  
 
Also called Lenturlu: Triumph with the possibility of bluffing
 
18/03/2005
19/11/2021
 
 
Or Mistigri, a variant of the game of Mouche
 
18/03/2005
19/11/2021
 
 
A category of small games of chance
  
02/10/2010
25/10/2021
 
 
A very sociable poule game of pure chance
  
27/09/2010
16/10/2021
 
 
A poule game requiring a bit of reasoning
  
29/09/2010
16/10/2021
 
   Other names for The Running Ace
02/10/2010
16/10/2021
 
 
One of the most basic poule games
  
29/09/2010
16/10/2021
 
 
 
A poule game requiring memory
  
01/10/2010
31/10/2021
 
 
An optimistic poule game
  
29/05/2025
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A poule game where you can be reborn
  
03/10/2010
16/10/2021

 

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3.   Miscellaneous and revisited games

  

Games
Comments
Published
Updated
Another take on the Game of the Goose
09/04/2007
15/04/2022
The origin of the game of Dominoes
24/06/2025
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A personal variant of Backgammon
06/02/2008
16/04/2022




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 Philippe Lalanne

   

  

 

 

                 

 

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