The Hand-book of Games: Comprising New Or Carefully Revised Treatises on Whist, Piquet, Ecarté, Lansquenet, Boston, Quadrille, Cribbage, and Other Card Games; Faro, Rouge Et Noir, Hazard, Roulette; Backgammon, Draughts; Billiards, Bagatelle, Amercan Bowls, Etc., EtcH.G. Bohn Bell & Daldy, 1867 - 617 pages |
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... chance and skill unite : chance distributes the cards , and skill controls their destiny . Lord William Manners , who seems to have been the best player of his time , insisted that there was no more than five per cent . odds between two ...
... chance and skill unite : chance distributes the cards , and skill controls their destiny . Lord William Manners , who seems to have been the best player of his time , insisted that there was no more than five per cent . odds between two ...
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... chance of succeeding in the finesse is equal ; but here calculation will show , that as the last player has one card more than his partner , it is that pro- portion in favour of his having it . With three cards , it will be three to two ...
... chance of succeeding in the finesse is equal ; but here calculation will show , that as the last player has one card more than his partner , it is that pro- portion in favour of his having it . With three cards , it will be three to two ...
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... chance whether he wins three tricks or two , but if he keeps the king he cannot possibly win three . By placing the cards you will perceive , that if B's partner has a better card than A's , it prevents A from making either of his ...
... chance whether he wins three tricks or two , but if he keeps the king he cannot possibly win three . By placing the cards you will perceive , that if B's partner has a better card than A's , it prevents A from making either of his ...
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... chance that the knave falls in the second round , or you may finesse your ten upon the return of trumps from your partner . If queen , knave , and four small trumps , begin with a small one , because the odds are in your favour that ...
... chance that the knave falls in the second round , or you may finesse your ten upon the return of trumps from your partner . If queen , knave , and four small trumps , begin with a small one , because the odds are in your favour that ...
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... chance to hold a better card in that suit than the last player it therefore follows that you have an equal chance to make three tricks in that suit , which probably could not otherwise have been done . Suppose you have five trumps , and ...
... chance to hold a better card in that suit than the last player it therefore follows that you have an equal chance to make three tricks in that suit , which probably could not otherwise have been done . Suppose you have five trumps , and ...
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Page 243 - What boots the regal circle on his head, His giant limbs, in state unwieldy spread ; That long behind he trails his pompous robe, And, of all monarchs, only grasps the globe ? The Baron now his Diamonds pours apace ; Th...
Page 242 - In show like leaders of the swarthy moors. Spadillio first, unconquerable lord ! Led off two captive trumps, and swept the board.
Page 243 - In heaps on heaps ; one fate o'erwhelms them all. The Knave of Diamonds tries his wily arts, And wins (oh shameful chance !) the Queen of Hearts. At this, the blood the virgin's cheek forsook, A livid paleness spreads o'er all her look ; She sees, and trembles at th' approaching ill, Just in the jaws of ruin, and codille.
Page 7 - With Index to the entire Work. In 3 vols. Matthew of Westminster's Flowers of History, especially such as relate to the affairs of Britain ; to AD 1307. Translated by CD YONGE. In 2 vols. Ordericus Vitalis' Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy.
Page 242 - The hungry Judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jury-men may dine; The merchant from th' Exchange returns in peace, And the long labours of the Toilet cease.
Page 242 - Soon as she spreads her hand, th' aerial guard Descend, and sit on each important card : First Ariel perch'd upon a matadore, Then each, according to the rank they bore ; For sylphs, yet mindful of their ancient race, Are, as when women, wondrous fond of place.
Page 264 - ... multiply each numerator by all the denominators, except its own, for a new numerator, and under it write the common denominator.
Page 530 - JENNY; and it is one of the most common, as well as one of the most...
Page 615 - Chalmers on the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man.
Page 243 - Gain'd but one trump and one Plebeian card. With his broad sabre next, a chief in years, The hoary Majesty of Spades appears, Puts forth one manly leg, to sight reveal'd, The rest, his many-colour'd robe conceal'd.