penneechn.

1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester xxii. 148 A Game called Penneech... If the Seven of Diamonds be turn'd up, that is Penneech, and is reckoned fourteen turn'd up... Having play'd out all the fourteen Cards betwixt ye, count how many Cards you have more than your own seven at first dealt you, and for every Card reckon one, and so you must reckon on with the value of your Coat-Card Trumps, with Penneech turn'd up or in hand, till you come to sixty one, which is the Game.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xvi. 73/1 Penneech, this game hath 7 cards apeece, and a card turned vp which is Trump. Then play and he that wins the first trick turns vp another card and that is trump; and so euery trick produceth a new trump till all the seaven are playd.

1776 J. Strutt Horda Angel-Cynnan III. 149 A book intituled ‘The compleat Gamester’..contains instructions for the following games:—First of billiards... Then follows the games at cards; of picket, of gleek,..lanterloo, penneech, [etc.].

1969 V. Bartlett Bk. Pastimes ix. 122 Among the [card] games that once were popular in England were dumb knight, knave out of doors, bone ace, beast, wit and reason, lanterloo, penneech and Queen Nazareen.

1990 D. Parlett Oxf. Guide Card Games xix. 261 As English point-trick games are rare, it is worth mentioning one known only from Cotton's Compleat Gamester, under the inexplicable name ‘Penneech’.