Ace-Ten games of the Ace-Ten scheme dates to 1718 and the French game of Brusquembille. Many Ace-Ten games have achieved national or regional status. They are usually played with cards typical of their particular country or region. These include: Other well known Ace-Tenners include: Ace-Ten games An Ace-Ten game is a type of card game, highly popular in Europe, in which the Aces and Tens are of particularly high value. Many of Europe's most popular card games feature the Ace-Ten scoring system, where the cards count as Ace = 11, Ten = 10, King = 4, Queen or Ober = 3, Jack
Frank J. Prial widely regarded as a classic newspaperman. Prial was the co-editor of "The Companion to Wine" (1992), the author of the column compilation books "Wine Talk" (1978) and "Decantations" (2001), and his writing featured prominently in "The New York Times Book of Wine" (2012). He was inducted into the Wine Media Guild hall of fame in 2007, and accepted a membership in the Légion d’Honneur from the French government. Prial died on November 6, 2012 in West Orange, New Jersey 82 years old, due to complications of prostate cancer. Frank J. Prial Frank J. Prial (November 4, 1930 – November 6,