Bezique
BGG rank
BGG #14,279
BGG rating
6.6

Bezique

1860

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  • 2 players
  • 30 min
  • 10+
  • Complexity 2.4/5

For 2 players

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Bezique is a board game released in 1860 for 2 players, 30 minutes per game, and ages 10 and up. Its main mechanics are Set Collection and Trick-taking.

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About the game

A trick taking card game in which players score for winning aces and 10s in tricks, and for forming certain combinations of cards from tricks won and cards in hand. Point-scoring combinations include four of a kind (aces, kings, queens and jacks only), a marriage (king and queen of same suit), sequence (A-10 of trump) or a Bezique (queen of spades and jack of diamonds). Bezique uses a subset of the standard playing cards, composed of the seven through Ace taken from two decks (i.e. the deck contains no deuces through sixes, with all other cards appearing twice). A game of Bezique goes through three distinct stages or "phases" of play, and is somewhat reminiscent of cribbage and canasta. Bezique is the ancestor of Pinochle, and that game's two-handed version is very similar to Bezique but with slightly different deck and slightly different scoring. (The origin date listed for this game is approximate.)

Categories

Publishers

  • Waddingtons
  • Piatnik
  • (Public Domain)
  • Brimtoy
  • Chas Goodall & Sons Ltd
  • De La Rue
  • W. D. & H. O. Wills
  • Werner & Schumann

Questions and answers

Bezique supports 2 players according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.