Lansquenet
thumb|250px|Jacob Duck: guardroom with soldiers playing cards, 17th century Lansquenet is a banking game played with cards, named after the French spelling of the German word Landsknecht ('servant of the land or country'), which refers to 15th- and 16th-century German mercenary foot soldiers; the lansquenet drum is a type of field drum used by these soldiers. It is recorded as early as 1534 by François Rabelais in Gargantua and Pantagruel.
Key facts
- CardGame.title
- Lansquenet
- CardGame.image_link
- Court cards 1694.jpg
- CardGame.image_caption
- Grand Dauphin Louis plays Lansquenet at Versailles (1694)
- CardGame.type
- Gambling
- CardGame.players
- 3+
- CardGame.play
- Clockwise
- CardGame.num_cards
- 40
- CardGame.deck
- Italian
- CardGame.related
- Baccarat, Monte Bank, Basset, Faro
- CardGame.playing_time
- 5–10 min.
- CardGame.random_chance
- Easy
- CardGame.skills
- Chance, Counting
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Article
6 sectionsContents
- Cards
- Play
- Cultural references
- Notes
- Sources
- External links
thumb|250px|Jacob Duck: guardroom with soldiers playing cards, 17th century Lansquenet is a banking game played with cards, named after the French spelling of the German word Landsknecht ('servant of the land or country'), which refers to 15th- and 16th-century German mercenary foot soldiers; the lansquenet drum is a type of field drum used by these soldiers. It is recorded as early as 1534 by François Rabelais in Gargantua and Pantagruel.
== Cards == Lansquenet is played with an Italian pack of 40 cards.