Bezique or
Bésigue is a 19th-century
French melding and
trick-taking card game for two players. The game is derived from
Piquet, possibly via
Marriage (Sixty-six) and Briscan, with additional scoring features, notably the peculiar liaison of the Q and J that is also a feature of
Pinochle,
Binokel, and similarly named games that vary by country.