This page is a translated archive of the original Académie des jeux oubliés, created on July 1, 2026, from the French original at salondesjeux.fr.
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This page is a translated archive of the original Académie des jeux oubliés, created on July 1, 2026, from the French original at salondesjeux.fr.
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Brusquembille with Marriage
Brusquembille with Marriage is a card game descended from Brusquembille. All that is known of it is the name given to it in 1779, in the Mélanges tirés d'une grande bibliothèque, by Marc Antoine René de Voyer d'Argenson who compared it to Briscan, whose rules were published in La Plus Nouvelle Académie universelle des jeux in 1752. With few exceptions, everyone who has written about card games agrees that Briscan, Brisque and Marriage are one and the same game, and they systematically repeat the rules of Briscan under one of the three names. For my part, I believe a distinction between these three games is called for. Indeed, an old rule for Brisque seems to have been overlooked, one found in the Supplémént au Dictionnaire universel françois et latin, published in Nancy in 1752. There, Brisque appears as a lighter version of Briscan, and probably an earlier one. Brisque would thus sit between Brusquembille and Briscan. As for Brusquembille – or Bruscambille – with marriage, it would fit perfectly between Brusquembille and Brisque, forming a kind of missing link. Based on the name of the game, and on what we know of Brisque from its 1752 rules, which differ from those of Briscan, it is easy to imagine how Brusquembille with Marriage might have been played. That is what I set out to do in this article. It will be understood that the rules given here are previously unpublished. See also: The Brusquembille family 1. Principle Brusquembille
with Marriage is played with the same rules as
Brusquembille. It should preferably
be played for points, with a target agreed upon between the players
such as 300 or 500 points. The chip payments for brusquembilles
– aces and tens – between players are then
ignored.
A marriage is the pairing of the king and queen of the same suit, that is, hearts, diamonds, spades, or clubs. Marriages earn points when they occur under the following circumstances :
When a player holds a marriage among the three cards in his hand, he may, if he wishes, declare it when it is his turn to play any card from his hand. He immediately scores, for himself or his team, 40 points if it is a trump marriage, and 20 points for the other suits.
When a player takes a trick that contains a marriage, he immediately scores, for himself or for his team, 40 points if it is a trump marriage, and 20 points for the other suits.
The total number of points contained in the deck is, as in traditional Brusquembille, equal to 120 points. To these points are added those from marriages. Since there are four marriages in the deck, one in trumps worth 40 points and three others worth 20 points each, the maximum number of achievable points rises to 220 – that is: 120 points from the cards and 100 points from the potential marriages.
A player may choose not to declare a marriage in hand, so as not to reveal two-thirds of his hand to his opponents, or even the whole of it if he chooses to play the third card. If on his next turn to play, he still holds the marriage, he may again choose to declare it or not. A marriage that has been declared cannot be declared a second time.
References Académie universelle des jeux, Legras, Paris, 1718 Supplémént au Dictionnaire universel françois et latin, published in Nancy in 1752 D'Argenson,
Mélanges tirés d'une grande bibliothèque, 1779 Information about this page Published
online on 3 September 2011 Author : Philippe LALANNE Le Salon des jeux - Académie des jeux oubliés
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