Published card games
Pope Joan
MacGregor Historic Games, 1730
Pope Joan is a card game published by MacGregor Historic Games in 1730. It is played with 2 to 6 players and from age 10.
- players
- 2–6
- years
- 10+
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The box
- Publishers
- MacGregor Historic Games, Nothing by Chance, Ltd.
- Year of release
- 1730
About the game
Pope Joan or Pope, a once popular Victorian family game, is an 18th-century English round game of cards for three to eight players derived from the French game of Matrimony and Comete and ancestor to Spinado and the less elaborate Newmarket. The game is related to the German Poch and French Nain Jaune.
Although its first published rules appeared in Hoyle's Games edition of 1814, an earlier reference to the game, originally called Pope Julius, appeared in The Oxford English Dictionary in 1732.More from MacGregor Historic Games
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