Commerce (card game)

Commerce is an 18th-century gambling French card game akin to Thirty-one and perhaps ancestral to Whisky Poker and Stop the Bus. It aggregates a variety of games with the same game mechanics. Trade and Barter, the English equivalent, has the same combinations, but a different way of acquiring them. Trentuno and Trente et un, apply basically to the same method of play, but also have slightly different combinations. Its rules are recorded as early as 1769.