Games: Containing the Established Rules and Practice of Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, [etc.]H.F.Anners, 1845 |
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adversary back game ball best card best trump bishop takes bishop's 3d square bishop's 4th square black kings Boaston called carrom CATCH THE TEN chance crib CRIBBAGE deal dealt discard elder hand entitled five cards four gain gives check honour king's 2d square king's bishop's pawn king's knight's pawn king's pawn king's rook king's rook's pawn knave knight's 3d square lose MODE OF PLAYING nine odd trick pack of cards pair partner party pawn one move pawn one step pawn retakes pawn takes pawn two steps person piece placed pool Pope Joan punter queen takes queen's 2d square queen's bishop's pawn queen's pawn queen's rook quinola reckon reversis revoke rook takes score sequence small card spades stake strong in trumps strong suit takes the knight takes the pawn three cards THREE-HAND WHIST turned W The king's W The queen's whist white kings win the game younger hand
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Seite 2 - French, have copas or chalices instead of hearts. The nobility, or prime military part of the kingdom, are represented by the ends or points of lances or pikes, and our ignorance of the meaning or resemblance of the figure induced us to call them spades.
Seite 180 - Reckon how many points you must have to bring home to your size point in your own tables the man that is at the greatest distance from it, and do the like by every other man that is...
Seite 72 - ... playing is looed when he does not take a trick, or when he breaks any of the laws of the game. Miss. — The same as Dumby. Misdeal. — Is when the dealer gives any of the party more or less than three cards, or deals too many or too few hands, or deals out of regular order, or shows a card in dealing. Paying for the Deal.— At each new deal, the dealer puts into the pool three counters, or three of whatever it may be agreed on by the party to play for ; and this is called the price of the...
Seite 186 - If a player bas only fourteen men in play, there is no penalty attending it. 4. If he bears any number of men before he has entered a man taken up, and which of course he was obliged to enter, such men so borne must be entered again in the adversary's tables as well as the man taken up.
Seite 122 - J'adoube, he-may lie compelled to take it, or, if it cannot be taken, to move his king. 5. When a pawn is 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.
Seite 122 - When a pawn is 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 before moved, if he is in check, if in castling he passes a check, or if the rook has moved. 7. Whenever a player checks his adversary's king, he must say Cheeky otherwise the adversary need not notice the check.
Seite 124 - ... sacrifice a piece or two to gain your end : these bold attempts make the finest games. 13. Never let your queen stand so before the king, as that your adversary, by bringing forwards a...
Seite 260 - ... 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...
Seite 213 - THIS Game is played by two or four persons, with twenty-eight pieces of oblong ivory, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a black line in the middle, and indented with spots from one to a double six, which pieces are, a double blank, ace blank, double ace...
Seite 12 - ... to have fourteen cards, in that case the deal is lost. 4. The dealer ought to leave in view upon the table his trump card, till it is his turn to play ; and after he has mixed it with his other cards, nobody is entitled to demand what card is turned up, but may ask what is trumps, whereby the dealer cannot name a wrong card, which otherwise he might have done.