Hoyle's Games Improved: Containing Practical Treatises on Whist, Quadrille, Piquet ... : Carefully Revised and Corrrected from the Latest and Best AuthoritiesG. Long, 1829 - 291 Seiten |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
adversary's tables back game basto best card bishop takes bishop's 3d square bishop's 4th square black kings bragger called carrom chance Cribbage deal dealer discard elder hand finesse five 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 knight's 3d square knight's 4th square last player lead a trump losing manille nine odd trick partner partner's lead party pawn one move pawn one step pawn retakes pawn takes pawn two steps person points punter queen takes queen's 2d square queen's bishop's pawn queen's pawn queen's rook quinola reckon red ball reversis rook takes score small card small clubs small diamonds small hearts Spadille stake striker strong in trumps strong suit takes the bishop takes the knight takes the pawn tenace three small trumps throw turned unless W The king's W The queen's whist white kings win the game younger hand
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 274 - If the players have crossed each other, he that runs for the wicket which is put down is out.
Seite 61 - ... 70. It is equally advantageous to lead up to as through an ace; not so much so to a king ; and disadvantageous to the queen turned up.
Seite 52 - ... the deuce in your hand, and you frequently deceive him by throwing down superior cards, it will destroy his confidence, and prevent his playing his game on similar occasions. I would wish to inculcate these minor qualifications of whist playing to the beginners, because they are attainable by every body ; and when once the great advantage of this kind of correctness is seen, the worst player would practice it as constantly as the best— attention being all that is necessary.
Seite 72 - The second, and most material, is, that your partner, if he wins the trick, may lead out trumps, on the supposition it is your strong suit, or the adversaries from suspecting your intention. On the contrary, the constant and certain advantages are the preservation of the tenace in the other two suits, which I suppose you to have, and the probable one of making your small trumps, which you could not otherwise do. A has four small trumps, ace, queen, &c. of the second suit ; king, knave,
Seite 115 - Vingt-un happen, the dealer pays single stakes to all whose numbers under twenty-one arc higher than his own, and receives from those who have lower numbers; but nothing is paid or received by...
Seite 272 - Ball must weigh not less than five ounces and a half, nor more than five ounces and three quarters.
Seite 45 - If your partner refuses to trump a suit, of which he knows you have not the best, lead your best trump.
Seite 40 - For the return of a small card will more distress than strengthen your partner. 2. If you hold a good sequence. For then you may show a strong suit, and not injure his hand. 3. If you have a strong suit. Because leading from a strong suit is a direction to your partner; and cannot injure him.
Seite 187 - If you bear any number of men before you have entered a man taken up, and which, consequently, you were obliged to enter, such men, so borne, must be entered again in your adversary's tables, as well as the man taken up.
Seite 38 - If you hold a sequence to your highest card in the suit, play the lowest of it. For by this means your partner is informed of your strength.