Card game score for Pierre – 11 (5,2,2)

Independent Cryptic #12294 | 3 Down | 2026-03-04
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

VINGT (French word for twenty, also called “a score”; Pierre = a French man’s name), then ET UN (French for “and one”; 11 = reference to 11d PLUS ONE). Vingt et un = twenty-one = a name for card games where the aim is to make a hand scoring twenty-one points. The English name pontoon is said to be derived from a corrupted pronunciation of the French name.

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