Gilet (card game)
| Origin | Italy |
|---|---|
| Alternative names | Gile |
| Family | Matching |
| Players | 2-4 |
| Skills | Chance |
| Cards | 32 |
| Deck | Italian |
| Play | Clockwise |
| Playing time | 20 min. |
| Chance | Medium |
| Related games | |
| Brelan, Gé, Point, Flux et Sequence, Primero | |
Gilet, also Gile, Gillet, is a 16th-century Italian gambling card game that probably predates the game of Primero. Rabelais, in 1534, gives it pride of place in his list of games played by Gargantua, and Cardano, in 1564, describes it as Geleus, from the word Geleo, meaning "I have it".