Together with an Analysis of the Game of Chess, and an Engraved Plate for the Instruction of Beinners. CAREFULLY REVISED FROM THE LAST LONDON EDITION WITH SEVERAL ADDITIONS. NEW-YORK PUBLISHED BY W. C. BORRADAILE, 146 BROADWAY. Southern District of New York, ss. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the Second day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thouL.S. sand eight hundred and thirty, in the fifty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, William C. Rorradaile, of the said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following-to wit: “Hoyle's Improved Edition of the Rules for playing Fashion able Games: containing Copious Directions for Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Quiuze, Vingt-un, Lansquenet, Pharo, Rouge et Noir, Cribbage, Matrimony, Cassino, Reversia, Put, Connexions, All Fouis, Speculation, Lottery, Pope Joan, Commerce, Pam Loo, Brag, Domino, Back-Gammon, Draughts, Hazard, Chess, Goff, or Golf, Cricket, Billiards, Tennis, Horse-racing, and Cocking. Together with an Analysis of the Game of Chess, and an engraved Plate for the Instruction of Beginners. Carefully rovised from the last London Edition, with several Additions." Jo conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled “ An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the au. thors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." "And also to an Act, entitled “ An Act supplementary to ap Act, entitled “ An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." FREDERICK J. BETTS, Clerk of the Southern District of New York, WHIST, The game described b 6 8 10 11 16 19 ib. ib. 24 26 28 39 68 84 95 98 105 108 110 112 113 119 126 ib. 128 131 132 135 109 118 133 PAM LOO, Terms used in this game 138 Description of this game 139 Laws of the game 141 Of flushes and blazes 144 General rules for playing 152 BRAG, Description of the game 154 Rank of the Cards . 156 Laws of the game · 157 DOMINO 158 BACKGAMMON, Described 161 Calculations of Chances 162 How to carry your men home 164 Rules for playing the 36 chances 165 Cautions, observations, and hints 167 Directions for bearing the men 168 The odds of saving or winning the gammon 170 Laws of the game 173 DRAUGHTS, Description of . 175 Twenty games played 176 Critical situations to draw games 196 Critical situations to win games 197 HAZARD, described 203 Table of the odds 204 Additional Calculations ib. CHESS, Description of the game 207 Laws of the game 208 Hoyle's general rules for chess 209 Select games at chess 216 A trick in chess 255 An anecdote ib. GOFF, or GOLF, The game described 256 CRICKET, Laws of the game 258 BILLIARDS, General Remarks . 261 Gencral rules for the game ib. The English, French, and other games 265 TENNIS 274 HORSE-RACING 278 Rules of the Jockey Club 281 Table of Weights 283 COCKING, Directions, &c. 284 Rules and Orders 286 |