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<p>Created page with &quot;&#039;&#039;&#039;Ombre&#039;&#039;&#039; (from Spanish &#039;&#039;hombre&#039;&#039;, meaning &quot;man&quot;) is a fast-moving seventeenth-century <a href="/index.php/Trick-taking_card_game" class="mw-redirect" title="Trick-taking card game">trick-taking card game</a> for three players. == Description == Its history began i...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Ombre''' (from Spanish ''hombre'', meaning &quot;man&quot;) is a fast-moving seventeenth-century [[trick-taking card game]] for three players.<br /> <br /> == Description ==<br /> <br /> Its history began in Spain around the end of the 16th century as a four-person game.<br /> <br /> It is one of the earliest card games known in Europe and by far the most classic game of its type, directly ancestral to Euchre, Boston and Solo Whist.<br /> <br /> Despite its difficult rules, complicated point score and strange foreign terms, it swept Europe in the last quarter of the 17th century, becoming Lomber in Germany, Lumbur in Austria and Ombre (originally pronounced 'umber') in England, occupying a position of prestige similar to contract bridge today.<br /> <br /> == See also ==<br /> <br /> * [[Card game]]<br /> * [[Industrie und Glück]]<br /> * [[Playing card]]<br /> * [[Trick-taking card games]]<br /> * [[Trump]]<br /> <br /> == External links ==<br /> <br /> * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tute Tute] @ Wikipedia<br /> <br /> [[Category:Card games]]<br /> [[Category:Games]]<br /> [[Category:Playing cards]]<br /> [[Category:Trick-taking card games]]</div>

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