Piquet

Piquet is one of the oldest card games still being played

 Originating around 1500. 2 player Card game 

Piquet is known from the early 16th century, but for most of that century under the name Cent, from its target score of 100 points. 

                                                              Piquet: The Game 

Although the rules look complicated, the basic idea is very simple. Each player receives 12 cards from a 32-card pack ranking AKQJ10987 in each suit - for example:

They discard some of their cards and draw replacements from the undealt stock of eight. The purpose of this is to improve the hand, so that it will (a) produce and score for certain card combinations and (b) subsequently win a majority of twelve tricks played at no trump. Points are scored throughout, and the winner is either the first to reach 100 points, or, in a later version called Rubicon Piquet, the player with the higher score after six deals.

                                                     Piquet To Rubicon Piquet

It was towards the end of the century that the older game of Piquet au Cent, or Hundred Up Piquet, was replaced by the new structure designated Rubicon Piquet. Official and authoritative rules for Rubicon were drafted by Cavendish and others in 1873, being commissioned, endorsed and published by the Portland and Turf Clubs of London

                                                          Piquet In Literature

It appears as such in the celebrated list of games played by Gargantua, the literary giant created by Rabelais in 1534,

The oldest known game description, however, comes not from a French but from a German text written about 1620 by Prince August D. J. von Braunschweig-Lüneburg under the pen-name Gustavus Selenus, perhaps better known for his treatise on Chess. 

It is equally prominent in the 19th century, with references in minor as well as major authors such as Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. 

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