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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... 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 of the best and two of the worst players The degree in which Whist is arbitrarily affected by the cards ...
... 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 of the best and two of the worst players The degree in which Whist is arbitrarily affected by the cards ...
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... manner you do not comprehend , get him to explain his reasons , and while fresh on your memory , place the same cards before you ; when once you can comprehend the case , you will be able to adapt it to similar situations . Before you ...
... manner you do not comprehend , get him to explain his reasons , and while fresh on your memory , place the same cards before you ; when once you can comprehend the case , you will be able to adapt it to similar situations . Before you ...
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... manner . With three , return the highest ; with four , the lowest of your partner's lead . This answers two purposes , by giving your partner an opportunity to finesse , and showing him you have but three at most in his suit . With the ...
... manner . With three , return the highest ; with four , the lowest of your partner's lead . This answers two purposes , by giving your partner an opportunity to finesse , and showing him you have but three at most in his suit . With the ...
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... manner ; but the least trump will win the highest card of any other card : where note , the ace is the highest . " Some play at two - handed , or three - handed Whist . If three - handed , always two strive to suppress and keep down the ...
... manner ; but the least trump will win the highest card of any other card : where note , the ace is the highest . " Some play at two - handed , or three - handed Whist . If three - handed , always two strive to suppress and keep down the ...
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... manner , especially in the old bet that the dealer does not score two that deal , since shuffling is of no signi- fication here . And in case you cannot get cards of the proper sizes ready made to mix with others , you may shave them ...
... manner , especially in the old bet that the dealer does not score two that deal , since shuffling is of no signi- fication here . And in case you cannot get cards of the proper sizes ready made to mix with others , you may shave them ...
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advantage adver adversary leads adversary's ball Article ball winning hazard baulk bricole called carambole Caster throw chance count crib Cribbage cushion deal dealer dealt Deschapelles deuce discard Drawn eight elder hand equal fault finesse five cards full ball winning gain give happen hold holes honours king knave last player left-hand adversary losing hazard manille matadores move and win nine number of points odd trick odds pack partner leads person placed play the king playing a ball pocket d pocket g pool probability punter queen quinola reckon red ball remain reversis revoke right-hand adversary round rubber rule score sequence seven small card small clubs small hearts spades Spadille stake striker's ball stroke strong in trumps strong suit suppose three small trumps three-handed whist turned unless vols weak in trumps Whist White to move win the game winning and losing younger-hand
Popular passages
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.