Pig (card game)

Pig is a simple, collecting card game of early 20th century American origin suitable for three to thirteen players that is played with a 52-card French-suited pack.[1] According to Richard L. Frey, the ancestor of pig was an old, four-player game called Vive l'Amour in which the aim was to be first to collect all 13 cards of one suit.which explains the story that when the Patriarch of Venice, Jacques Monico was playing cards, he called "Vive Marie!""[3] Frey thus sees pig as a "modern simplification" of vive l'amour, its name being simply a "bowdlerism" of the earlier game.He also records the game of Spoons for the first time, describing it as a variant in which, however, the player who stays to the end without spelling S-P-O-O-N-S is the overall winner.[10][11] Katz conflates pig with spoons and uses the whole pack instead of the selecting and shuffling 4 quartets per player, but adds some interesting variations.[14] In the late 19th century, however, a modified version appeared in which cards were exchanged "to the left and right" and the winner shouted "Vive l'amour!"Ulmann adds that each player anted an agreed stake to a pot beforehand and that the dealer dealt the cards one by one.[e] However, a version of pig called spoof using "empty thread spools or spoons or some other small article..." is described by Mulac as early as 1946.
A game of spoons in progress
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