Écarté
Also known as
- Ecarte
Écarté is a two-player card game originating from France, the word literally meaning "discarded". It is a trick-taking game, similar to Whist, but with a special and eponymous discarding phase. It is closely related to Euchre, a card game played mainly in the USA. Écarté was popular in the 19th century, but is now rarely played.
All cards from two to six are removed from a 52-card pack, to produce the Piquet pack of thirty-two cards, which rank from the lowest 7, 8, 9, 10, ace, knave, queen,...
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