Brusquembille

Brusquembille
18th-century French game
French Piquet deck
OriginFrance
TypePoint-trick game, trick-and-draw type
Players2-5
Cards32
DeckPiquet pack
Rank (high→low)A 10 K Q J 9 8 7
Related games
Briscan, Brisque

Brusquembille or Briscambille is a historical, French, 3-card trick-and-draw game for two to five players using a 32-card piquet pack. The game has variable trumps. Side-payments are made for keeping or winning aces and tens.

The Brusquembille rules published in 1718 are the earliest surviving French rules of an ace–ten card game. Cards have precisely the same card-point values as in a number of modern games such as Skat.