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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... player of his time , insisted that there was no more than five per cent . odds between two of the best and two of ... player , the game being so " infinite " in its " variety . " He is a good player who , upon a sound theory , analyses ...
... player of his time , insisted that there was no more than five per cent . odds between two of the best and two of ... player , the game being so " infinite " in its " variety . " He is a good player who , upon a sound theory , analyses ...
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... player put on the ace to prevent it ; still it is of great utility by establishing your partner's suit . A has ace , knave , ten , and a small card of the suit led by his right - hand adversary . - Query - Which is he to play ? Answer ...
... player put on the ace to prevent it ; still it is of great utility by establishing your partner's suit . A has ace , knave , ten , and a small card of the suit led by his right - hand adversary . - Query - Which is he to play ? Answer ...
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... player changes his original suit , he commonly leads his strongest card of another , to give his partner the advantage of a finesse . In this case you are to play this , as if it was your own or adversary's lead - keep the commanding ...
... player changes his original suit , he commonly leads his strongest card of another , to give his partner the advantage of a finesse . In this case you are to play this , as if it was your own or adversary's lead - keep the commanding ...
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... player . By this , after , the second lead , he still retains the best for the third , according to the maxim , and establishes his suit ( though the best trump keeps up against him ) unless there are five in one hand originally . With ...
... player . By this , after , the second lead , he still retains the best for the third , according to the maxim , and establishes his suit ( though the best trump keeps up against him ) unless there are five in one hand originally . With ...
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... player alone can be expected to distinguish on so nice an occasion . There are points where good players disagree . Some play what is called a forward - others a more timid game . Some commonly put on a king , second ; others but rarely ...
... player alone can be expected to distinguish on so nice an occasion . There are points where good players disagree . Some play what is called a forward - others a more timid game . Some commonly put on a king , second ; others but rarely ...
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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.