FOUR-HANDED BEZIQUE card game instruction

Four-handed declarations with diamonds as trumps

Similar to rubicon bezique but played with six piquet decks (192 cards) and each player is dealt nine cards. Players pair up, with partners sitting opposite each other.

After winning a trick a player may declare or may give his partner the option of declaring. A player may use his partner’s declared cards in [...]

Eight-deck bezique family card game

Eight-deck declarations when dubs are trumps

Played as six-deck but with eight piquet decks (236 cards) and a hand of 15 cards each. Declarations are similar to six-deck declarations with differences (and points values) as listed:

a- Quintuple bezique (9000)

b- Five trump aces (2000)

c- Five trump 10s (1800)

d- Five trump Ks (1600)

e- Five trump Qs (1200)

f- [...]

SIX-DECK BEZIQUE OR CHINESE BEZIQUE card game

This game is similar to rubicon bezique but played with six piquet decks (192 cards) and a hand of 12 cards each, dealt singly or in packets of three.

Trumps are assigned by the first declared sequence or marriage. Brisques are never counted. The last, winning trick scores 250 points.

Declarations arc as in rubicon bezique, plus [...]

Three handed bezique card game

Three players play for themselves with three piquet decks (96 cards). The final aim is a score of 1500. Otherwise the game is the same as bezique.

RUBICON BEZIQUE

Two people play with four piquet decks (128 cards) and are dealt nine cards singly or in packets of three. Trumps are assigned by the first sequence or [...]

Bezique card game rules

The history of bezique goes back 350 years, the standard game emerging from France. A derivation is pinochle, popular in the USA.

STANDARD BEZIQUE

PLAYERS

Standard bezique is for two players, but variations exist for three or four players.
CARDS

Bezique is played with a 64-card double piquet deck – i.e. all cards below 7, except the ace, are removed [...]