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Pope Joan (card game)

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continued by the player who holds the next card up, and if no one can play the next card up because it is in the dead hand, or because a King has been reached, a new sequence is started by the player who played the last card ("stop card"). As before, it may be of any suit, but must be the lowest he has of it. All Kings are of course stops, also the
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The dealer "dresses the board" by placing a stake of six counters in the compartment labelled Pope, two each to Matrimony and Intrigue, and one to each of the others. He then deals the 51 cards among the players as far as they go, but to one more hand than there are players, with the last card dealt
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The content (if any) staked to the Ace, King, Queen and Jack compartment goes to the player playing the said trump card, as does that for Pope. That for Intrigue can only be won if the same player is able to play Queen and Jack, as does Matrimony for King and Queen, if all three, those in the two
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Eldest leads first playing a card face up to the table. It may be of any suit, as long as it is his lowest card. For this purpose, cards rank A 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 J Q K. If he has the next higher card of the same suit, he plays it too, and so on until he can go no further. The sequence is then
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The first to play out all of his cards wins the stake for Game, plus one counter from each other player for each card remaining in his hand, except the player holding the Pope who is excused payment.
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to the dead hand turned for trump. Cards in excess may be dealt to "stops," or an agreed number may be left for that purpose, so that all players have an equal number of cards. If it is Pope (
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is then removed from the pack to form a stop sequence, which classifies the game as a sub-group of the stop family of games. The aim of the game is to run out of cards before anyone else.
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The game only requires minimal attention in order to know what stops have been made in the course of play. The Pope card is sometimes considered a universal "stop."
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compartments, and if they are in different hands these counters are sometimes divided. If any stake is not won, it is then carried forward to the next deal.
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A staking board is required, with eight compartments labelled Ace, King, Queen, Jack, Game, Pope (
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David Parlett, Oxford Dictionary of Card Games, pg. 221-222 Oxford University Press (1996)
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denies a female pope, the legend was used as Protestant propaganda in the
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James Gilray
Lady Georgiana Gordon
England
Matching
Michigan
Nain Jaune
Newmarket
Poch
Queen Nazarene
English
cards
French
Newmarket
Poch
Nain Jaune
Hoyle
Pope Julius
The Oxford English Dictionary
nain jaune
Pope Joan
Pope John VIII
Catholic Church
Victorian era
Scotland
Curse of Scotland

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