![]() Jacquet board and counters (France, early 20th century) | |
Genres | Board game, race game, tables game |
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Players | 2 |
Movement | parallel |
Chance | Medium (dice rolling) |
Skills | Strategy, tactics, counting, probability |
Related games | |
Fevga • Laquet • Moultezim | |
Features: postilion |
Jacquet is a tables game played on a backgammon-like board and which was once very popular in France and several other parts of Europe.[1] It probably emerged around 1800, but is attested by 1827.[2] In the 20th century it replaced the classic French backgammon equivalent — the game of Trictrac — until Jacquet itself was superseded by Anglo-American games in the 1960s.[3][4]