Talk:Basset (banking game)

message: This section is written horribly; to the point where the actual mechanics of the game and how one wins/loses money are not even evident. The glossary doesn't do much to clarify. I was linked to this article through the faro article, and I can't tell the difference between the two from this section, not to mention that if I hadn't read that article and known that this was a related game, I would have no clue how basset works, period. A winning card is mentioned, but which card is that? Is it the first dealt, or is it the second/third...etc. This section is very much lacking in a plain, step-by-step description and assumes that you already know how this whole family of gambling card games works. I think this issue stems from the below mentioned fact of this text being copied from a public domain website, which would explain why the assumptions of you knowing the general format of the game are present.
----hansolo22  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.225.72.172 (talk) 09:04, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Game Play

message: Spelling question: 30 and 60 in modern French are trente and soixante, respectively, not trent and soissante. Are these old spellings or misspellings? -phma, 20:50, 17 November 2008 (UCT)
:I checked and that was what was used in The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, Vol. II (1870).  Maybe that was the English version of the French numbers as used around the gaming tables. --Bejnar (talk) 07:18, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It probably was a combination.--Parkwells (talk) 17:06, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Spelling question

message: This entire article seems to have been copied from The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, Vol. II, by Andrew Steinmetz, Esq., published 1870 in the United Kingdom by Tinsley Brothers. It is public domain. --Bryan Nguyen | Talk 03:01, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Even though the original article is in public domain, the Wikipedia article should be cleaned up to clarify it, reflect contemporary usage and reduce archaic tone.--Parkwells (talk) 17:06, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article copied from public domain text 

message: Move to Basset (card game), leave Basset as disambig page Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:59, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If I don't see any "nay-sayers" in the next week or so, I will go ahead and make the change.  --Bejnar (talk) 06:28, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambiguation

message: Voltaire's Candide makes reference to a game played in Paris called "Basser". The description he gives sounds like Basset. Here is the quote:
If someone can confirm they think this is Basset I will put the quote or part of it in the article. Zargulon (talk) 12:38, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Basser is probably an OCR error introduced when someone scanned Tobias Smollett's translation, which has Basset. The French original says "on y était occupé d'un pharaon". Pharaon replaced Basset, and presumably Smollett considered it just a variant of Basset and decided that the latter would be better for easy recognition by his readers. Hans Adler 14:05, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

text: PS: The name of the host could be an allusion to Polignac, a negative card game, as she profits from the players' losses. Hans Adler 14:11, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Basser