Tarabish: The Cape Breton Game
c. 1970s by Ocean Promotion of Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Since it has no barcode, and the graphics look relatively modern, I'm guessing this deck was made sometime in the 1970s. Contained in the Tarabish box are 40 cards, ace & 6 through king, 6 trump info cards, and a foldout paper leaflet with descriptions of the face cards, and instructions on how to play the game.
This is a non-standard deck with custom faces:
The Jacks represent the island's ties to the land, the sea and the arts.
The Queens show the Celtic culture so common on the island.
The Kings show the coal mining which immigrant people, and local Cape Bretoners, worked at.
Tarabish, also known by its slang term Bish, was originally a Lebanese trick-taking card game of complex rules derived from Belote, a game of the Jass family. The actual pronunciation of the name is "Tar-bish". It is now played only by the people of Cape Breton Island in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, where it was introduced in 1901 by a Lebanese immigrant miner called George Shebib.
A card game that most say is truly a Cape Breton card game as it’s not played with a full deck. So popular on University campus that students who spent more time playing cards than at their classes were said to have a Degree in Bish.
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