Nain Jaune
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The game of Nain Jaune or Yellow Dwarf, also formerly called Lindor, is an "attractive and unique traditional French card game" using a board comprising five compartments or boxes. It is a reasoned ga
A Nain Jaune board. The classic French game is named after the ♦7 depicted as a yellow dwarf in the centre.
Coloured wooden jetons of the type used in Nain Jaune
Jeux de hocs
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The jeux de hocs are a family of French card games in which the aim is to be first to shed all one's hand cards to sequences laid out in rows on the table. They all feature cards known as 'stops' or h
Nain Jaune
…depicted as a yellow dwarf (French: nain jaune) in the centre of the game board. Nain Jaune first emerged in the mid-eighteenth century as one of the hocs group of games and is still a popular French family game today. The original rules were more challenging and the game could only be played by three or five players…
A game of Nain Jaune in the museum at Colmar