Mouche (card game)
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Mouche, also known as Lanterlu, is an old, French, trick-taking card game for two to six players which has elements, such as bluffing, reminiscent of the much later game of poker. It is a member of th
A mouche - a flush of diamonds
Coloured wooden tokens of the type used in Mouche: jetons (round), fiches (long) and contrats (short)
Lanterloo
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Lanterloo or loo is a 17th-century trick taking game of the trump family of which many varieties are recorded. It belongs to a line of card games including Nap and rams.
Mouche (card game)
…in the Académie Universelle des Jeux of 1718, although Parlett implies that, from its terminology, it ought to be an ancestor of the English game, Lanterloo, which goes back at least to Cotton's rules of 1674, and that they are probably both descended from an early trump game, known as Triomphe. In the early…
"Pam-flush" - Four of a suit plus Pam (♣Kn)