Bezique Bezique Bezique () or Bésigue () is a 19th-century French melding and trick-taking card game for two players. The game is derived from Piquet, possibly via Marriage (Sixty-six) and Briscan, with additional scoring features, notably the peculiar liaison of the and that is also a feature of Pinochle, Binokel, and similarly named games that vary by country. Bezique was developed in France from the game Piquet, although the word Bezique, formerly "Bésique" or "Bésigue", was known in France in the 17th century, coming probably from the Italian card game Bazzica. The word "bezique" once meant "correspondence" or "association". In English-speaking
Card game formal settings are free to implement agreed-upon supplemental or substitute rules at will. An infraction is any action which is against the rules of the game, such as playing a card when it is not one's turn to play or the accidental exposure of a card, informally known as "bleeding." In many official sets of rules for card games, the rules specifying the penalties for various infractions occupy more pages than the rules specifying how to play correctly. This is tedious, but necessary for games that are played seriously. Players who intend to play a card game at a high