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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 794 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AMBIGU , a See also:

French See also:game of See also:cards, composed of the characteristic elements of See also:whist, See also:bouillotte and See also:piquet. A whist See also:pack with the See also:court cards deleted is used, and from two to six persons may See also:play. Each player is given an equal number of counters, and a limit of betting is agreed upon. Two cards are dealt, one at a See also:time, to each player, after each has placed two counters in a See also:pool. Each player then either keeps his See also:hand, saying " Enough," or takes one or two new cards from the See also:top of the stock; after which the stock is reshuffled and cut, and each player receives two more cards, one at a time. The players then either " play " or " pass." If a See also:person " plays," he bets a number of counters and the others may equal this See also:bet or raise it. Should no player meet the first bet, the bettor takes back his bet, leaving the pool intact, and receives two counters from the last player who refuses to play. When two or more bet the same number, they again draw cards and " pass or " play " as before. If all " pass," each pays a See also:counter to the pool and a new See also:deal ensues. The player betting more than the others See also:call wins the pool. He then exposes his hand and is paid by each adversary according to its value. The hands See also:rank as follows:—" Point," the number of pips on two or more cards of a suit (one counter).

" See also:

Prime," four cards of different suits (two counters). " See also:Grand Prime," the same with the number of pips over 30 (three counters). " Sequence," a hand containing three cards of the same suit in sequence (three counters). " Tricon," three of a See also:kind (four counters). " Flush," four cards of the same suit (five counters). "Doublet," a hand containing two counting combinations at once, as 2, 3, 4 and 7 of spades, amounting to both a " sequence " and a " flush " (eight counters). " Fredon," four of a kind (the highest possible hand), ten or eleven counters, according to the number of pips. Ties are decided by the number of pips.

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