Template:Did you know nominations/Comet (card game)
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The result was: promoted without image by Theleekycauldron (talk) 16:57, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
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Comet (card game)
A long run in the game of Comet that resembles the light trail behind a comet.
- ... that the card game of Comet, originally called Manille, was renamed in 1682 after the appearance of Halley's Comet?
Source: "...the hocs were replaced by a single wild card, the Nine of diamonds, known as manille, which gave the game its new name. It also became known as Comet following the appearance of Halley's comet in 1682..." in Parlett, David (1991). A History of Card Games, OUP, Oxford.- ALT1:... that the card game of Comet was named after Halley's Comet in 1682 probably because the long run of cards laid by the players resembles the light trail behind a comet?
Source: as above plus "...continues to be called Comet. Wrt the latter it could well have been named after the long runs of cards laid during a player's turn, resembling comets, which are usually accompanied by a long trail of light..." in _ (1718). Académie universelle des jeux. Théodore Le Gras, Paris. pp. 153ff.
- ALT1:... that the card game of Comet was named after Halley's Comet in 1682 probably because the long run of cards laid by the players resembles the light trail behind a comet?
- Reviewed: to follow
Created by Bermicourt (talk). Self-nominated at 15:22, 19 August 2021 (UTC).
Date, size, refs, neutrality, all GTG. I am AGFing that this is notable and there is SIGCOV in sources. Please copy the date 1682 from the lead to the body, and conversely, expand the lead a bit (right now it's super short and it contains information not repeated in the body, like the data 1682). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:12, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
- comment this nomination doesn't have a QPQ. I'll donate Template:Did you know nominations/Abraham O. Woodruff—I'm promoting this now, it's just faster this way. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/them) 16:57, 25 August 2021 (UTC)