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Encyclopedia Britannica



LANSQUENET

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 185 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KRO-LAP
LANSQUENET , the French corrupted form of the
German
  Landsknecht (q.v.), a
mercenary
  foot-soldier of the 16th
century
 . It is also the name of a card game said to have been introduced into France by the Landsknechte. The
pack
  of 52
cards
  is cut by the player at the dealer's right. The dealer
lays
  the two first
cards
  face upwards on the table to his left; the third he places in front of him and the fourth, or rejouissance card, in the middle of the table. The players, usually called (except in the
case
  of the dealer) punters, stake any sum within the agreed limit upon this rejouissance card; the dealer, who is also the banker, covers the bets and then turns up the next card. If this fails to match any of the cards already exposed, it is laid beside the rejouissance card and then punters may stake upon it. Other cards not matching. are treated in the same manner. When a card is turned which matches the rejouissance card, the banker wins everything staked on it, and in like manner he wins what is staked on any card (
save
  his own) that is matched by the card turned. The banker pays all stakes, and the deal is over as soon as a card appears that matches his own; excepting that should the two cards originally placed at his left both be matched before his own, he is then entitled to a second deal. In France matching means winning, not losing, as in
Great
  Britain. There are other variations of play on the
continent
  of Europe.


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