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MeggieSoft Games Piquet is a comprehensive implementation of the highly-regarded notice punt dating back to the 15th century. Play against an online antagonist or against your computer. There are many customizable graphic, legal (including MIDI music and words output), dominion and scoring options. Six different computer opponents are available for when you are unable to come online, or simply want to exercise privately. Piquet is a punt of exchanging cards, declaring combinations, and playing tricks with the object of scoring more points than the computer antagonist. Each punt, or "partie", comprises 6 rounds. Piquet is one of the oldest notice games and is widely regarded to be the finest and most challenging notice punt ever devised for two players. Each round starts by the players exchanging some of their cards with fresh cards from the "talon" (the stock). The resolve phase follows during which the players try to out bid each other's Point (hanker suit), Sequences (runs) and Sets (threesome or quaternity of the same flagrant). The winner in each category rafts points for the winning resolve and any additional sequences or sets, respectively. Finally the cards are played as tricks, with points awarded for leading and capturing tricks. The challenge of Piquet is to residue the change, the declarations and the deception winning in edict to throw the maximum advantage over the antagonist. Special bonuses exist in both the resolve and deception phases for the artful player. The user interface, uncouth to altogether MeggieSoft Games, supports both point-and-click and drag-and-drop mouse operations. Features include: realistic animated notice movement; right-click pop-up menus; a suggest facility; a tutorial; automatic play; automatic save and restore of partly finished games; multiple-user scoreboards; a strip and uncluttered main window; status-bar shortcut buttons; and fully customizable main show font and wallpaper effects for the table and playing lusterlessness, and the notice backs.