The rules of Piquet
Yesterday, boredom resulted in a friend and I finding a two-player card game that’s actually interesting. It’s called Piquet. However, even the best set of rules we found took us a while to understand, and there are competing older rulesets that actually describe different versions of the game that antedate the current one, so learning the game took us two or three hours and several botched games. So, after figuring out that the rules are in fact relatively simple, I’m writing and posting an easy-to-understand set of rules in case anyone else is looking for one. More… »