Picket

Variants

Reconstructions and Other Discussions

• The Compleat Gamester, 1725 edition (Facsimile) -- A facsimile of a later (but still useful) edition of Cotton, available on Google Books. (more)
• Academie Universelle des Jeux (1718) (Facsimile) -- An out-of-period but still very interesting edition of one of the earliest serious encyclopedias of games. (French) (more)
• The rules of modern Piquet (Modern Play) -- (more)
• A period-style description of Piquet (Reconstruction) -- Not actually period -- a modern writeup of the game, using Elizabethan-style English (more)
• Parlett on Piquet (History) -- Goes into quite a bit of history, since this period game has more or less survived down the centuries; does not actually give the detailed rules. (more)
• Justin's reconstruction of Picket (Reconstruction) -- (more)
• Transcription of Cotgrave's description of Picket (Transcription) -- Transcribed by Justin du Coeur. (more)
• How to Play Piquet (Reconstruction) -- Includes a pretty detailed description of play, as well as several more-recent variations. (more)
• Justin's implementation of Piquet for playingcards.io (Computer Play) -- (more)
• Another transcription of Picket from Cotgrave (Transcription) -- Transcribed by Ruben, based on Justin's transcription (more)
• Margaret's reconstruction of Piquet (Reconstruction) -- (more)
• Transcription of Picket from Cotton (Transcription) -- Transcribed by Justin. Apparently heavily plagiarized from Cotgrave. (more)
• Games in *The Academy of Armory* (Transcription) -- Transcription by Justin du Coeur and Jeff Singman of the relevant sections from this 1688 book on heraldry, which happens to talk a lot about a lot of stuff. (more)