Newmarket is an English card game of the matching type for any number of players.

[1] Newmarket's predecessor was an English gambling game called Pope Joan that had an elaborate staking board in the shape of a rotating multi-compartment dish.

Newmarket continues to be played in the UK, although, like Michigan in the US, it is being displaced by games of the Eights family.

[6] Other names include money cards,[6] luxuries[6] or, in an allusion to the Newmarket Racecourse, horses.

[7] An early description of the rules is given in 1885 edition of The American Hoyle on which the following is based:[5] Newmarket is a round game for any number of players using a pack of 52 French-suited cards from which the ♦8 has been removed.

The pack is shuffled and cut before the cards are dealt in entirety, individually, beginning with eldest hand again.

The main differences from Dick are:[14] A standard pack is used with cards ranking in their natural order, Aces low.

A King, Queen, Jack and Ten from a second pack are laid in a row on the table; these are called boodles.

The cards are now dealt, singly and in rotation, to each player and, lastly, to a spare hand that is not subsequently touched.

This continues until the sequence reaches the King or no-one has the next higher card because it is in the spare hand.