Rules
Piquet is played with a 32-card deck normally referred to as a piquet deck. In some countries piquet decks are commercially available because they are used for other, nowadays more popular games, such as Belote in France and Skat in Germany. The deck is composed of all of the 7s through to 10s, the face cards, and the aces in each suit, and can be created by removing all 2-6 values from a 52-card poker deck.
Each game consists of a partie of six deals (partie meaning match in French). The player scoring the most points wins (see the scoring section for further details).
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