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Aluette is a plain trick-taking card game played usually by four people divided into two teams. It is played in rural and coastal areas in France between the Gironde and Loire estuary, that is to say, in the western part of the area of influence of Saintonge and Poitou dialect. It is wrongly presented as a folk and specific game in the Vendée department. It seems still practiced in the south-western part of the Loire-Atlantique called Retz. It is also practiced at family gatherings, at St Nazaire, city where we also played in cafes around 1960. At that time, there still were playing around the Brière and Guerande peninsula. It was much played in the ports of the Cotentin, where this game has disappeared. This game is apparently very old with references to the game of "luettes" by François Rabelais in the early 16th century. As the cards use Spanish suits, it may even predate the invention of French playing cards around 1480. "''La luette''" means uvula in French and may refer to the fact that it is played with codified signs that allow team members to provide information on their cards during the game.〔(Aluette )〕 The game is also called "''la vache''" (the cow) because of the illustration on the 2 of cups card. Due to similarities it has with the game of truc, aluette may have been imported by Spanish merchants. ==Cards== Aluette uses a unique deck of 48 Spanish playing cards where certain pip cards depict figures to show that they outrank their face value. These figures provide the card with their nicknames and are associated with certain gestures players pass to their teammate. The card ranks are as follows: The "Luettes": *1: Three of Coins (Monsieur/Mister) - look upwards *2: Three of Cups (Madame/Misses) - tilt head to the side *3: Two of Coins (Le borgne/the blind) - wink *4: Two of Cups (La vache/the cow) - pout a "moo" The "Doubles": *5: Nine of Cups (Grand Neuf/Great Nine) - show the thumb *6: Nine of Coins (Petit Neuf/Small Nine) - show the little finger *7: Two of Clubs (Deux de chêne/Two of Oaks) - show the index and middle finger *8: Two of Swords (Deux d'écrit/Two of Writing) - mime writing The "Figures": *9: Aces - open your mouth *10: Kings *11: Knights *12: Knaves The "Bigailles": The remaining pip cards from the Nines of Swords and Clubs to the Threes of Swords and Clubs. The Five of Coins also includes a depiction of a couple kissing (believed to represent the Catholic Monarchs) and the traditional signal is to "kiss hard" but it has no special value. Many of the illustrations on aluette decks appeared in other early Spanish packs but have since disappeared like the six-pointed stars on the Four of Coins.〔(Spanish cards )〕 Grimaud, a subsidiary of Cartamundi's France Cartes, is the only producer of Aluette decks in the present. Since 1998, cards have included the nicknames, hinting gestures, and game ranking indices on their cards.〔(Aluette decks )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aluette」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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