chouetten.
/ʃwɛt/ A ‘lone hand’ at bezique, piquet, or backgammon; a game including a ‘lone-handed’ player.
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1887 ‘Cavendish’ Laws Rubicon Bézique 9 A player playing à la chouette has choice without cutting.
1892 ‘Cavendish’ Laws Rubicon Bézique (ed. 2) 39 A player willing to take all stakes, may declare to play à la chouette—i.e., single-handed against all comers... If the chouette wins, an opponent takes the loser's place, and so on with the others in rotation.
1927 Sunday Express 6 Nov. 2 I remember once this man taking a chouette at piquet against Mr. Ashmead Bartlett and myself.
1929 W. J. Locke Ancestor Jorico xi When he was with us we played a chouette (three players) of Rubicon Bézique for hours together.
1935 Encycl. Sport 47/1 [article Backgammon] Chouette is a variation to enable more than two people to play. Each person throws a die, the highest being said to ‘sit in the box’. The next highest is active opponent and the others act in an advisory capacity to him.
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