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MeggieSoft Games Piquet is a comprehensive implementation of the highly-regarded carte back dating back to the 15th century. Play against an online opposing or against your computer. There are many customizable graphic, good (including MIDI music and address output), find and scoring options. Six different computer opponents are available for when you are unable to arrive online, or merely want to exercise privately. Piquet is a back of exchanging cards, declaring combinations, and playing tricks with the object of scoring more points than the computer opposing. Each back, or "partie", comprises 6 rounds. Piquet is one of the oldest carte games and is widely regarded to be the finest and most challenging carte back ever devised for two players. Each round starts by the players exchanging some of their cards with fresh cards from the "talon" (the stock). The announcement phase follows during which the players endeavor to out bid each other's Point (farseeing suit), Sequences (runs) and Sets (iii or foursome of the same order). The winner in each category gobs points for the winning announcement and any additional sequences or sets, respectively. Finally the cards are played as tricks, with points awarded for leading and capturing tricks. The challenge of Piquet is to counterpoise the convert, the declarations and the legerdemain winning in place to make the maximum advantage over the opposing. Special bonuses exist in both the announcement and legerdemain phases for the artful player. The user interface, coarse to whole MeggieSoft Games, supports both point-and-click and drag-and-drop mouse operations. Features include: realistic animated carte movement; right-click pop-up menus; a pinch facility; a tutorial; automatic play; automatic save and restore of partly finished games; multiple-user scoreboards; a blank and uncluttered main window; status-bar shortcut buttons; and fully customizable main exhibit font and wallpaper effects for the table and playing tangle, and the carte backs.