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Monte Bank, Mountebank, Spanish Monte and Mexican Monte, sometimes just Monte, is a Spanish gambling card game and was known in the 19th century as the national card game of Mexico. [1] It ultimately derives from basset , where the banker (dealer) pays on matching cards.
Ombre (from Spanish hombre 'man', [1] pronounced "omber") or l'Hombre is a fast-moving seventeenth-century trick-taking card game for three players and "the most successful card game ever invented." [2] Its history began in Spain around the end of the 16th century as a four-person game. [3]
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Spanish playing cards used in Julepe. Julepe (Spanish: Julepe), [1] (Catalan: Julep, also the variety Xulepe and Gilen.), [2] is a gambling card game of Spanish origin, similar to the English five-card Loo, and best for six players. It spread rapidly across the Spanish-American countries during the 19th century.
Mus is a card game widely played in Spain, France and Hispanic America.Originating in the Basque Country, [1] it is a vying game. The first reference to this game dates back to 1745, when Manuel Larramendi, philologist and Jesuit Basque, quoted it in a trilingual dictionary (Basque-Spanish-Latin).
This old game of cards was called prime in France, primera in Spain, and primiera in Italy. All names derived from the Latin primarius, 'first'.In English literature, besides the occasional use of the foreign names, the game is designated primero (and also prima-vista, a probable variant), with the usual corruptions in spelling of the early days.
The trump cards are the cards directly above the one which was turned over (e.g. if the card revealed is a 7, the trump cards are the queens). The strength of a trump card when compared to the others is determined by its suit, with diamonds being the weakest, followed by spades, hearts and clubs being the strongest.
Rentoy is first mentioned by Cervantes (1547–1616) in The Illustrious Kitchen Maid along with a game called Presa y Pinta (possibly Lansquenet) and appears to have been a popular 16th and 17th century Spanish card game. [1] It was still popular enough in the early 19th century to appear in an autobiography by Periquillo Sarniento in 1816. [2]