Bezique player and early expert of Six-Pack, or "Chinese" Bezique. There is some evidence that the English writers Wilkie Collins and Christina Rossetti were also enthusiasts. However, since the late nineteenth century the game has declined in popularity. A two-handed Bezique deck is a 64-card deck, consisting of the ace down to the seven of each suit doubled (i.e. the twos to sixes are stripped from two decks and the remaining cards combined), The players cut for deal, with the highest card having preference. The rank of the cards in cutting, and in play, is , , , , , ,
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