Hoyle's Games: Containing the Rules for Playing Fashionable Games ; with Copious Directions for Boastin, Blind Hookey, Whist ...International Book, 1857 - 316 ページ |
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back game basto best trump bishop takes bishop's 3d square bishop's 4th square black kings bragger called carrom chance cock Cribbage deal dealer dealt deuce discard elder hand finesse five four gives check honour king's 2d square king's bishop's pawn king's knight's pawn king's pawn king's rook's pawn knave last player lead trumps loses manille N C F T nine odd trick pack partner leads party pawn one move pawn one step pawn retakes pawn takes pawn two moves pawn two steps person pieces pool punter queen takes queen's bishop's pawn queen's pawn queen's rook reckons red ball reversis rook takes score small card small clubs small diamonds small hearts Spadille stake striker strong in trumps strong suit takes the knight takes the pawn terce three small trumps throw turned unless W The king's W The queen's whist white kings win the game younger hand
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137 ページ - The most interior part moves upon an axis, or pivot, and is turned about with handles, whilst the ball is set in motion round the gallery. This part is generally divided into forty niches, or interstices, twenty of which are marked with the letter E, and the other twenty with the letter O. The lodging of the ball in any of the niches distinguished by those letters, determines the wager. The proprietors of the tables have two...
62 ページ - No player of this kind can ever excel, though he may reach mediocrity. I must also repeat my advice to proficients, to vary their play according to the set they are .engaged with ; and recollect that it would be of no advantage to speak French like Voltaire, if you lived with people who are ignorant of the language.
97 ページ - ... but if the points be fifteen, it is seven to six against that hand : yet it would not, therefore, always be prudent to stand at fifteen, for as the ace may be calculated both ways ; it is rather above an even bet that the adversary's two first cards amount to more than fourteen. A natural...
137 ページ - E, and the other 20 with the letter O. The lodging of the ball in any of the niches, distinguished by those letters, determines the wager. The proprietors of the tables have two bar holes, and are obliged to take all bets offered either for E or O; but if the...
133 ページ - Matrimony, (see p. 116) is played by any number of people, who generally use a board painted for this purpose, which may be purchased at most turners' or toy shops. The eight of diamonds must first be taken from the pack, and after settling the deal, shuffling, &c. the dealer dresses the board by putting fish, counters, or other stakes, one each to ace, king, queen, knave, and game ; two to matrimony, two to intrigue, and six to the nine of diamonds, styled Pope. This dressing is, in some companies,...
209 ページ - J'adoube, he may be compelled to take it, or, if it cannot be taken, to move his king. 5 : When a pawn has moved two steps, it may be taken by any adversary's pawn which it passes, and the capturing pawn must be placed in that square over which the other leaps. 6 ; The king cannot castle if he has...
131 ページ - The highest trump in each deal, wins the pool ; and whenever it happens that not one is dealt, then the company pool again, and the event is decided by the succeeding coup. After determining the deal, &c. the dealer pools six fish, and every other...
133 ページ - The cards are next to be dealt round equally to every player, one turned up for trump, and about six or eight left in the stock to form stops ; as, for example, if the ten of spades be turned up, the nine consequently becomes a stop ; the four kings, and the seven of diamonds, are always fixed stops, and the dealer is the only person permitted, in the course of the game, to refer occasionally to the stock for information what other cards are stops in their respective deals.
60 ページ - ... of this practice, with those generally alleged against it, leaving the reader to determine between them. Two objections are made, which, it cannot be denied, may and do happen. The first, that if your partner has the king of the suit guarded, and the ace behind it, he loses it; which would not be the ,case, if the lead came from the adversary. The second, and most...
159 ページ - ... their possession. It is to the advantage of every player to dispossess himself as early as possible of the heavy pieces, such as a doublesix, five, four, &c.