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Misere or misère (French for "destitution"; equivalent terms in other languages include bettel, contrabola, devole, null, pobre) is a bid in various card games, and the player who bids misere undertakes to win no tricks or as few as possible, usually at no trump, in the round to be played. [1]

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Academic Press

Academic Press is an academic book publisher.

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Bidding

Bidding is an offer (often competitive) to set a price by an individual or business for a product or service or a demand that something be done.

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Boston (card game)

Boston is an 18th-century trick-taking card game played throughout the Western world apart from Britain, forming an evolutionary link between Hombre and Solo Whist.

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Card game

A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific.

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Combinatorial game theory

Combinatorial game theory (CGT) is a branch of mathematics and theoretical computer science that typically studies sequential games with perfect information.

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Draughts

Draughts (British English) or checkers (American English) is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Glossary of Australian and New Zealand punting

The Australian and New Zealand punting glossary explains some of the terms, jargon and slang which are commonly used and heard on Australian and New Zealand racecourses, in TABs, on radio, and in the horse racing media.

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Hearts

Hearts is an "evasion-type" trick-taking playing card game for four players, although variations can accommodate between three and six players.

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Last Year at Marienbad

L'Année dernière à Marienbad (released in the US as Last Year at Marienbad and in the UK as Last Year in Marienbad) is a 1961 French-Italian Left Bank film directed by Alain Resnais from a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet.

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Lowball (poker)

Lowball or low poker is a variant of poker in which the normal ranking of hands is inverted.

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Miser

A miser is a person who is reluctant to spend, sometimes to the point of forgoing even basic comforts and some necessities, in order to hoard money or other possessions.

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Miserere

Miserere is the Latin imperative of misereor for have mercy or have pity, see Mercy.

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Nim

Nim is a mathematical game of strategy in which two players take turns removing objects from distinct heaps.

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Notakto

Notakto is a tic-tac-toe variant, also known as neutral or impartial tic-tac-toe or toe-tac-tic.

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On Numbers and Games

On Numbers and Games is a mathematics book by John Horton Conway first published in 1976.

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Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the main historical dictionary of the English language, published by the Oxford University Press.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Poker

Poker is a family of card games that combines gambling, strategy, and skill.

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Skat (card game)

Skat is a 3-player trick-taking card game devised around 1810 in Altenburg in the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.

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Sprouts (game)

Sprouts is a paper-and-pencil game with significant mathematical properties.

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Sylver coinage

Sylver coinage is a mathematical game for two players, invented by John H. Conway.

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Trick-taking game

A trick-taking game is a card game or tile-based game in which play of a hand centers on a series of finite rounds or units of play, called tricks, which are each evaluated to determine a winner or taker of that trick.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays

Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays (Academic Press, 1982) by Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John H. Conway, and Richard K. Guy is a compendium of information on mathematical games.

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500 (card game)

500 or Five Hundred is a trick-taking game that is an extension of Euchre with some ideas from Bridge.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misère

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