BEZIQUE.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 182, 16 April 1878, Page 3

BEZIQUE.

(From Punch.)

Doubts having arisen as to which is the right way to play this fashionable game, we have waded through a lot of correspondence in the newspapers, and have come to the conclusion that these are the proper rules : — 1. The game is commenced by each player cutting a card, and is ended by each player cutting away. 2. The highest cutter deals, and, in cases of dispute, a foot rule may be sent for so that somebody may measure him. 3. A ten can take a king, and a cat may look at one. 4. When some one plays the knave, in certain cases some one else may send for a policeman. 5. Should a player be so lucky as to score 500 for a double bezique, his opponents are allowed to say he came the double over them. 6. In declaring a marriage between a king and queen, it is not needful that the banns be published by a clergyman. 7. In Scotland it is dangerous to make a declaration of marriage, if you are playing with a widow, and witnesses are present. 8. Until the last eight tricks you need not follow suit, unless you have the ill luck to walk behind a chimney-sweep. 9. Whatever points you hold you must make a point of counting them : but you must not count this point in addition to the others.

10. The game being 1000 points, when a player scores that number to 500 of his adversary, the odds are even at the finish, 500 to won.