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1727 tr. Mme de Sévigné Lett. II. cxiii. 155 A Game at Reversis gives a Form to the Assembly, and fixes every Thing.

1796 (title) Rules of reversis, as played in the fashionable circles.

1814 C. Jones Hoyle's Games Improved (new ed.) 163 Reversis is played by four persons... For this game the tens must be taken out from a pack of cards.

1876 Catal. Cards Brit. Mus. 51 A game termed Mawe succeeded Primero, then came Gleek, Hombre, Quadrille, Reversis, and Bassett.

1917 H. Astrup tr. J. P. Jacobsen Marie Grubbe x. 133 You shall rest on the soft couch and drink a good pot of ale, and then we shall play a game of reversis.

1977 Jrnl. Playing-Card Soc. May 23 Reversis is historically important as the earliest known negative complex trick-taking game.

1999 Business Wire (Nexis) 20 Apr. Descended indirectly from Reversis, a French game dating to 1601, Hearts now enjoys the reputation as the most popular international trick-avoidance game.

1777 tr. Rules Game of Reversis i. 4 To make the Reversis [Fr. (1763) faire la vole à l'ombre; (1782) faire le Reversis], is to win all the Tricks.

1796 Rules of Reversis 7 When every trick is made by one person, there is no party; and this is called (by way of excellence) making the reversis.

1819 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia (new ed.) (at cited word) All consolations paid for aces or quinolas, by the person undertaking the reversis, are to be returned on winning it.

1830 R. Hardie Hoyle made Familiar 40 When every trick is made by the same person, there is no party, and this is called making the Reversis.

1850 H. G. Bohn et al. Hand-bk. Games 306 If the diamond was not taken, then play your seven of clubs, and with winning that trick in all probability you will make the reversis.

1977 Jrnl. Playing-card Soc. May 28 To make reversis a player must win all eleven tricks.