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[serialcondition.livejournal.com]

What does "взятка-мизер" mean?

thank you

UPD: thanks to mymus, the mystery is solved

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[portugalist.livejournal.com]

взятка-мизер????
one word?

[serialcondition.livejournal.com]

yes it was written with a hyphen

[mymus.livejournal.com]

it's all about a russian (or french?) card game called "preférénce" ("преферанс").

"взятка" stands for bid and "мизер" stands for misère, special type of bid.

try to google for game rules if you need more details

[mymus.livejournal.com]

i forgot to say that the concept of мизер may also be found in other card games, but i am not sure

[mricon.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia to the rescue! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferans)

[serialcondition.livejournal.com]

thank you very much -- and I thought that preferans was played only by 19th century literary characters

=) t.

[hellga.livejournal.com]

Oh no, my dad played hundreds of hours of it when he was younger and he still plays it on computer every once in a while. :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/celsium_/]

50% of soviet and post-soviet students played and still play it!

[kseniyakanke.livejournal.com]

yea, i like this game! It's really interesting sometimes, but not too easy.
And, about "взятка-мизер", it is termin from not onle preferance. It use in different cart-game. It means: minimum points, which you must to get in one "кон" (part of game).

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

No, we play it from time to time

[yms.livejournal.com]

взятка stands for trick (if you ever need it in future :)

[odin2000.livejournal.com]

trick is it a gift?
You must now, that word "взятка" in Russian mean and "gift", and "bid".

[yms.livejournal.com]

I don't know what I must "now", but "gift" is подарок and "bid" is ставка.

[serialcondition.livejournal.com]

I think that by "gift" he means "bribe"

[yms.livejournal.com]

A bribe is a criminal act, so let's stop talking about it ;)