Published card games
Commerce
J. Ottmann Lithography Company, 1900
Commerce is a card game published by J. Ottmann Lithography Company in 1900. It is played with 3 to 8 players.
- players
- 3–8
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The box
- Publisher
- J. Ottmann Lithography Company
- Year of release
- 1900
About the game
Commerce is an 18th-century gambling French card game akin to thirty-one and perhaps ancestral to whisky poker and stop the bus. It aggregates a variety of games with the same game mechanics. Trade and barter, the English equivalent, has the same combinations, but a different way of acquiring them. Trentuno and Trente et un, apply basically to the same method of play, but also have slightly different combinations. Its rules are recorded as early as 1769.Information from Marquoir’s game database, which cross-checks several open sources. Spotted a mistake? Write to us from the Contact page.