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Conquian is a card game whose origins are in dispute. Some believe the game originated in Spain hundreds of years ago, and was then brought to Mexico. Others strongly believe the game actually originated in Mexico in the mid-1800s. It was first described as ''Coon Can'' in 1887 and then in detail in R. F. Foster's Hoyle in 1897.〔Dictionary of Card Games, Oxford University Press, 1996 - pg. 74. ISBN 0-19-869173-4〕 According to David Parlett, it is an ancestor to all modern rummy games, a kind of proto-Gin Rummy.〔 He also notes that the 1920s American card-game writer Robert F. Foster “traces Conquian back to the early 1860s.” The name is thought to either derive from "con quién" – Spanish "with whom", or from the Chinese game ''Kon Khin,''〔No Chinese card game by the name of ‘Kon Khin’ has ever been found, and these words do not even match any of the many card games that have prevailed in Ming-Qing China.〕 a variation of the earlier game Khanhoo. It is sometimes corrupted to ''Coon Can,''〔First described in ''The Standard Hoyle'' in 1887 and today known in the United States as Double Rum for being played with two packs〕 ''Councan'', ''Conca'' and ''Cuncá'', a South American variation of the game. In 19th-century Mexican literature〔E.g. Luis Gonzaga Inclán’s ''Astucia'', 1865; Juan Antonio Mateos’s ''Sacerdote y caudillo'', 1869.〕 the word is spelled ''cunquián,'' showing thus it has nothing to do with the phrase "¿Con quién?". It is much more tempting to relate Conquian to the 19th-century Philippine card game Kungkian, or Kungkiyang, which Ilocano and Cebuano dictionaries define as "A card game, the same as pañggiñggí (Panguingue ), except that there are only two players."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Kungkiyang )〕 ==Overview== ===The deal=== Conquian is played by two or more players with a 40-card pack of cards ranking A 2 3 4 5 6 7 J Q K, being the rest stacked face-down on the table. The aim is to be the first to get rid of the cards, including the last one drawn. The total amount of cards shown must add up to nine. Each player is dealt nine cards and wins the game by melding a total of ten cards. They may be melded by pairing (at least three or four of a kind) or by a straight flush sequence (three to ten cards from the sequence A 2 3 4 5 6 7 J Q K A: thus, A 2 3 and 6 7 J are valid sequences). 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「Conquian」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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