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Mille Bornes (/ ˌ m ɪ l ˈ b ɔːr n /; French for a thousand milestones, referring to the distance markers on many French roads, is a French designer card game. Mille Bornes is listed in the GAMES Magazine Hall of Fame .
' game of small horses ') is a French cross and circle game, closely related to ludo. It consists of moving several pawns (called horses) to the home reserved for their color. Each player will receive between 1 and 3 horses in general. The first player to reach the last triangular square wins the game.
Dixit (Latin: dixit, Latin pronunciation:, "he/she/it said"), is a French board game created by Jean-Louis Roubira , illustrated by Marie Cardouat, and published by Libellud . Using a set of cards illustrated with dreamlike images, players select cards that match a title suggested by the designated storyteller player, and attempt to guess which ...
Jeu de paume in the 17th century.. Jeu de paume (UK: / ˌ ʒ ɜː d ə ˈ p oʊ m /, [1] French: [ʒø d(ə) pom]; originally spelled jeu de paulme; lit. ' palm game '), nowadays known as real tennis, (US) court tennis or (in France) courte paume, is a ball-and-court game that originated in France.
Boules (/ b uː l /, French pronunciation:), or jeu de boules, [1] is a collective name for a wide range of games similar to bowls and bocce in which the objective is to throw or roll heavy balls as closely as possible to a small target ball, called the jack. 'Boules' itself is a French loanword that usually refers to the game especially played ...
Belote (French pronunciation:) is a 32-card, trick-taking, ace–ten game played primarily in France and certain European countries, namely Armenia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Georgia (mainly Guria), Greece, Luxembourg, Moldova, North Macedonia (mainly Bitola), Bosnia and Herzegovina and also in Saudi Arabia and Tunisia.
The modern game is known by several other names such as Rochambeau, Roshambo, Ro-sham-bo, Bato Bato Pik, and Jak-en-poy. [7] [8] [9] While the game's name is a list of three items, different countries often have the list in a different order. In North America and the United Kingdom, it is known as "rock, paper, scissors" or "scissors, paper ...
Thirty-One is first mentioned in a French translation of a 1440 sermon by the Italian, Saint Bernadine, so may be of Italian origin.It is mentioned by Rabelais, Cardano and numerous other 16th century sources, but David Parlett notes that the name referred to two different card games – one like Pontoon and one like Commerce.