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A completed game in French. There are two forms of competition Scrabble in French. Scrabble classique, also known as partie libre, is match play, as in the English-language game. Duplicate Scrabble is an alternative form of the game where all players have the same letters and board in front of them, and play against the theoretical top score.
The Jeux de la Francophonie (Canadian English: Francophonie Games; British English: Francophone Games) are a combination of artistic and sporting events for the Francophonie, mostly French-speaking nations and former colonies of France, held every four years since 1989.
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Articles relating to the games and publications of Jeux Descartes (also known as Descartes Editeur). Pages in category "Jeux Descartes games" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
The game community site Knipsbrat.com states that, like the German name Knipsbrat ('flicking-board'), "pichenotte is another name for crokinole" [4] [5] The Canadian game board collection at the Quebec Museum of Civilization in Quebec City includes both the square carrom-type board [6] and the round crokinole-type game [7] Crokinole is also ...
The name goes back to a fairy tale, by French noblewoman, Baroness d'Aulnoy, published in 1698. Le Nain Jaune (the yellow dwarf) is a cruel story about an ugly, jealous and evil villain. [5] The game of Nain Jaune first appeared around 1760 in the French region of Lorraine under the name of jeu du Nain (Dwarf) or jeu du Nain-Bébé (Baby Dwarf
Petits-Chevaux, French for "little horses", is a gambling game played with a mechanical device consisting of a board perforated with a number of concentric circular slits, in which revolve, each independently on its own axis, figures of jockeys on horseback, distinguished by numbers or colors.
Brisque was probably derived from Brusquembille [1] which, in turn, stemmed from Mariage, the progenitor of the Marriage family of card games. [2] The earliest rules for Brisque appear in a 1752 French-Latin dictionary which suggest it is an earlier and simpler version of Briscan, a highly elaborate game with a much larger range of declarations. [3]