Crossword-Solution: ECARTE 6 letters, 105 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

This disposition enables us to remove from the pack such and such cards and then to class them in the necessary order so that they may get into the hand of the operator.' Chauvignac then proceeded to apply his precepts by an example, and although the young man had no particular qualification for the art of legerdemain, he succeeded at once to admiration in a game at Ecarte, for he had already mastered the first process of cheating.

Ecarte was to be the game, and Olivier was to play, the two other associates having pretended to know nothing about the game, and saying that they would content themselves by betting with each other.

For my own poor part, I don’t know one note of music from the other; but I can match you at chess, backgammon, ecarte, and (with the inevitable female drawbacks) even at billiards as well.

For the most part, however, my duties were to play ecarte with Captain Fourneau, and to act as his companion.

Now, Colonel Gerard, with your permission we will resume our game of ecarte.” It is one of those occasions which one does not forget.