"Rubicon" or "Japanese" Bezique is a modification of the ordinary game,
which has for some years found much favour in Paris. In 1887, a code of
{18} laws, which we append, was drawn up by a committee of the Portland
Club, and Rubicon Bezique may now be regarded as the standard game.
Four packs, of like pattern and shuffled together, are used. The cards rank
as at ordinary Bezique; but _nine_ instead of eight cards are dealt, singly
or by threes, to each player. There is no "turn-up," the first "marriage"
scored determining the trump suit. If a "sequence" be declared and scored
before any marriage, such sequence determines the trump suit.