Talk:Quartets (card game)

32 Cards

It is most likely that the austrian publisher (Piatnik) who first printed Quartets also published other "normal" sets of playing cards for the german variants of games like Skat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_playing_cards Those tend to have 32 cards in most of the country (and around the austrian capital Vienna, where Piatnik probably had their HQs) so it would be the size their presses, cutting apparatusses etc were laid out for. So the notice that 52 cards are the "regular" size isn't true in Germany, Austria, the Switzerland and at least part of the Benelux countries....

Also: with 52 cards in a deck you get 13 suites of 4 each... Something most businesses would try to avoid... --5.146.47.110 (talk) 01:46, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Who invented this game?

The article says 'The game was invented in the Netherlands where it is known as kwartet.', followed immediately by 'The game was originally created by Austrian card game company Piatnik during the 1960s'. The first claim is without citation, the second does have a citation, but that citation only talks about when that company started making cards for Quartests; it doesn't claim the game was invented by Piatnik. Unless someone is going to provide references soon, I'll remove both statements are they're too dubious. 62.216.5.216 (talk) 17:07, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

A few seconds with Google turns up museums displaying quartets games from way before the 1960s, even going back to the 19th century. Making the second claim false. I'll delete it. This link shows the collection of quartet games of the Museum of Rotterdam, showing games as early as the 1870s. 62.216.5.216 (talk) 17:23, 5 March 2021 (UTC)