Jeu de Cavagnole is a game of Genoese origin, notably played in the eighteenth century in France, where it was introduced in the 1730's. Its name comes from the Italian words cavagnolo or cavagnola "small basket". The game was mostly played by women of the aristocracy. Jeu de Cavagnole is made up of a variable number of square cards, each card with five numbers, four in the corners and a fifth in the center. Each part of the game has an illustration (painted or engraved), usually of small popular subjects. The game is similar to a lottery where you bet on the numbers that will come out, a bit like roulette (a game of chance). In turn, one of the players "holds the bank", that is to say, extracts from a bag a numbered ticket that decides the gain or loss of the players. You bet by putting token coins on the numbers. You can play a whole card, two numbers in a row or a full number.

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