Pope Joan (card game)
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Pope Joan or Pope, a once popular Victorian family game, is an 18th-century English round game of cards for three to eight players derived from the French game of Matrimony and Comete[1] and ancestor to Spinado and the less elaborate Newmarket.[2] The game is related to the German Poch and French Nain Jaune.
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Origin | England |
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Type | Matching |
Family | Stops group |
Players | 3-8 |
Skills | Attention |
Cards | 51 cards |
Deck | French |
Play | Clockwise |
Playing time | 20 min. |
Chance | Easy |
Related games | |
Michigan • Nain Jaune • Newmarket • Poch • Queen Nazarene |
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Although its first published rules appeared in Hoyle's Games edition of 1814, an earlier reference to the game, originally called Pope Julius,[3] appeared in The Oxford English Dictionary in 1732.