Talk:Écarté

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The rules in the article look to have been paraphrased from another source, and possibly translated from another language (small gramatical things out of place, etc.), though the precursor text suggests that they are taken directly from a standardized document. I'd suggest either finding a source document and matching our text to it, or altering the precursor text and cleaning up the rules for grammar.

There were no grammatical mistakes, excepting the usage of 'less' instead of 'fewer', and the text is almost certainly not a translation, and I have put most of the 'corrections' back to the elegant form in which they were written. Although the text is old-fashioned in its generous use of the subjunctive, it is quite mistaken to assume that this part of the English language is dead. Even when the subjunctive mood takes the same form as the indicative, it does not mean to say that it is not being used. And in fact, it is still in general use in the vernacular, and widely by people who are not consciously aware of its existence, even in the U.S.A. CAW 00:49, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

Sevens

If the cards from two to seven are removed, how can the sevens still be in play?

Ecarte and Euchre

Although it shares some elements with Ecarte and was widely believed to be a variation of it by nineteenth century scholars, most modern Euchre scholars (not a large group, to be sure) dismiss this theory. Rather, Euchre comes from the Alsatian game Juckerspiel. See David Partlett's The Oxford Guide to Card Games, 1990. Leprendun (talk) 18:32, 26 July 2008 (UTC)