Jones 3 M. Boyce | | 2 Lewis 4 Izard | | 2 E. Wilson 4 H. Jones | +---+----+-----+----+---+-----+---+ +---+----+-----+----+---+-----+---+ |E-W|Gain|Trump|HAND|N-S|Check| | |E-W|Gain|Trump|HAND|N-S|Check| | +---+----+-----+----+---+-----+---+ +---+----+-----+----+---+-----+---+ | 5 | 1 | CJ | 1 | 9 | ✓ | | | 4 | | CJ | 1 | 8 | ✓ | | | 8 | | S3 | 2 | 5 | ✓ |1&2| | 8 | | S3 | 2 | 5 | ✓ |3&4| | 5 | 2 | CA | 3 |10 | ✓ | | | 3 | | CA | 3 | 8 | ✓ | | | 7 | | HQ | 4 | 6 | ✓ |---| | 7 | | HQ | 4 | 6 | ✓ |---| |10 | 3 | D4 | 5 | 6 | ✓ | | | 7 | | D4 | 5 | 3 | ✓ | | |10 | | D7 | 6 | 2 | ✓ |1&3| |11 | 1 | D7 | 6 | 3 | ✓ |2&4| | 4 | | C6 | 7 | 7 | ✓ | | | 6 | 2 | C6 | 7 | 9 | ✓ | | | 5 | | S4 | 8 | 7 | ✓ |---| | 6 | 1 | S4 | 8 | 8 | ✓ |---| | 1 | | C7 | 9 |11 | ✓ | | | 2 | 1 | C7 | 9 |12 | ✓ | | | 8 | | S4 | 10 | 2 | ✓ |1&4| |11 | 3 | S4 | 10 | 5 | ✓ |1&4| | 9 | | D3 | 11 | 4 | ✓ | | | 9 | | D3 | 11 | 4 | ✓ | | | 4 | | DQ | 12 | 8 | ✓ |---| | 5 | 1 | D2 | 12 | 9 | ✓ |---| | |--- | | 13 | | | | | |--- | | 13 | | | | | | +6 | | 14 | | | | | | +9 | | 14 | | | | | | | | &c | | | | | | | | &c | | | | +---+----+-----+----+---+-----+---+ +---+----+-----+----+---+-----+---+ ] The names of the N & S and the E & W members of each team should first be entered on the score-cards; then all the N & S players move to the next table East; those at table 5 going to table 1; and each table dealing and playing four hands, afterwards putting them away in trays. e | a | b | c | d a 1 a | b 2 b | c 3 c | d 4 d | e 5 e e | a | b | c | d | | | | Hands:--1 to 4 | 5 to 8 | 9 to 12 | 13 to 16 | 17 to 20 The peculiarity of this system is in the movement of the trays; those at the middle table always going to the extreme West of the line, the others moving up as many tables at a time as may be necessary to follow them. In this instance the trays at table 3 go to 1, all others moving up two tables. At the same time the N & S players all move one table further East, bringing about this position:-- 2nd set. d | e | a | b | c a 1 a | b 2 b | c 3 c | d 4 d | e 5 e d | e | a | b | c | | | | Hands:--9 to 12 | 13 to 16 | 17 to 20 | 1 to 4 | 5 to 8 This movement of the trays and players is continued for two more sets, which completes the round:-- 3rd set. c | d | e | a | b a 1 a | b 2 b | c 3 c | d 4 d | e 5 e c | d | e | a | b | | | | Hands:--17 to 20| 1 to 4 | 5 to 8 | 9 to 12 | 13 to 16 4th set. b | c | d | e | a a 1 a | b 2 b | c 3 c | d 4 d | e 5 e b | c | d | e | a | | | | Hands:--5 to 8 | 9 to 12 | 13 to 16 | 17 to 20 | 1 to 4 If we now take any two of the teams engaged, _=a=_ and _=d=_ for instance, we shall find that the E & W _=a=_ and the N & S _=d=_ pairs of those teams have played hands 9 to 12 at table 1, in the 2nd set; and that N & S _=a=_ and E & W _=d=_ pairs have overplayed the same hands at table 4, in the 3rd set; so that we have really been carrying out a number of matches simultaneously, between five teams of four players each.
If this is still a tie, the elder hand wins. _=A Sequence=_ is a bobtail straight flush; that is, three of the four cards are in sequence, such as the 2, 3 and 4 of spades, with an odd card, such as a 9. This is a better combination than a prime, and the holder receives _=three counters=_ from each player. In case of ties, the highest sequence wins. If the sequence flush is one of four cards, it is a doublet. _=A Tricon=_, or three of a kind, is better than a straight, and entitles the holder to _=four counters=_ from each of the other players. Pairs have no value. _=A Flush=_ is four cards of the same suit, not necessarily in sequence, and is better than a tricon. The holder is paid _=five counters=_ by each of the other players, in addition to winning the pool. _=Doublets.
” Clubs ” ” ” ” ” 4 ” ” Diamonds ” ” ” ” ” 6 ” ” Hearts ” ” ” ” ” 8 ” ” there is no trump, ” ” ” 12 ” Better to understand the importance of this variation in value, it should be noticed that the game is 30 points; so that if two partners won 3 by cards with no trump, or 4 by cards with hearts for trumps, they would win the game in one deal. On the other hand, if either of the black suits were trumps, they could not lose the game, even if a slam were made against them. It will thus be evident that two considerations influence the player whose privilege it is to make the trump: First, to win as much as possible, if he has the cards to do it. Second, to save himself, if he is weak; or the game, if it is in danger. As a general proposition, it may be said that his decision will be indicated by the colour of the trump he names. If it is red, he is strong, and plays to win; if it is black, he is taking to the woods. A further element may enter into his calculations, the state of the score. If he feels sure of the few points necessary to win the game or the rubber with a black trump, there is no necessity to risk making it red. This is a part of the subject which we shall go into further when we come to the suggestions for good play. The dealer has the first say in making the trump.
If a little slam, “six tricks,” has been bid and is made, it is worth 5,000 more for bidding it, or 6,000 altogether. If a grand slam, 13 tricks, is made but not bid, it is worth 2,000 honour points. If a little slam is bid and a grand slam made, it is worth 7,000 altogether. If a grand slam is bid and made, it is worth 12,000 altogether. _=Lost Games.=_ If the bidder fails to make good, his adversaries score 100 times the value of the tricks as penalty, in the honour column; the scores for the tricks actually won standing at their regular value below the line. Suppose the bid to be three in diamonds, making the tricks worth 30 each, and that the bidder’s side get the odd trick only. Although the bidder has failed to make good, he scores below the line for the seven tricks he took, at 30 each, and the adversaries score for the six they took, also at 30 each. Then, as the bidder fell short by two tricks of making good, his adversaries score these two tricks at 3,000 points each, penalty, in the honour column. _=Honours.
--Luton, Bedfordshire (Mrs. Ashdown). (_b_) In the Yorkshire version a ring is formed with one child in the middle as the Oary Man. Whatever he, or she, does, all in the ring must mimic, going round and singing at the same time. Any one found late in changing the action or idle in obeying the caperings of the central child becomes the Oary Man in place of the child taking that part. Both girls and boys play. In the Redhill version, Holy Gabriel kneels in the middle of the circle. He acts as leader, and always had the fiddle as his instrument, though he now usually plays the pianoforte as his first instrument. The other children choose any instrument they like. Holy Gabriel pretends to play the fiddle, and all the other children play their own instruments until Holy Gabriel changes his to one of theirs, when that one must immediately begin to play the fiddle, and continue until Holy Gabriel takes another instrument or returns to the fiddle.
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If you have proposed once, and hold the King, and feel pretty sure of the point, you may propose again on the chance of getting strength enough to make the vole. When only two cards can be discarded, it is a safe rule to stand on the hand; either to play without proposing, or to refuse cards; unless you hold the King. There are no authoritative laws for Écarté, and the various French and English codes do not agree. The code adopted by the English clubs is not in accord with the best usage, and fails to provide for many contingencies. All that is essential in the laws will be found embodied in the foregoing description of the game. _=TEXT BOOKS.=_ The best works on the subject of Écarté are usually to be found in conjunction with other games. The student will find the following useful:-- The Westminster Papers, Vols. IV to XI, inclusive. Bohn’s Handbook of Games; any edition.
The code succinctly states laws which fix penalties for an offence. To offend against etiquette is far more serious than to offend against a law; for in the latter case the offender is subject to the prescribed penalties; in the former his adversaries are without redress. 1. Declarations should be made in a simple manner, thus: “one heart,” “one no trump,” “pass,” “double”; they should be made orally and not by gesture. 2. Aside from his legitimate declaration, a player should not show by word or gesture the nature of his hand, or his pleasure or displeasure at a play, bid, or double. 3. If a player demand that the cards be placed, he should do so for his own information and not to call his partner’s attention to any card or play. 4. An opponent of the declarer should not lead until the preceding trick has been turned and quitted; nor, after having led a winning card, should he draw another from his hand before his partner has played to the current trick.
1870. Mactaggart s _Gallovidian Encyclopædia_, ed. 1871. Jamieson s _Etymological Dictionary_, ed. 1872-1889. Folk-lore Society Publications. ABERDEEN-- Pitsligo Rev. W. Gregor. BANFFSHIRE-- Duthil, Keith, Strathspey Rev.
If the foul is not claimed the player continues to score, if he can. _=13.=_ After being pocketed or forced off the table the red ball must be spotted on the top spot, but if that is occupied by another ball the red must be placed on the centre spot between the middle pockets. _=14.=_ If in taking aim the player moves his ball and causes it to strike another, even without intending to make a stroke, a foul stroke may be claimed by an adversary. (See Rule Fifteenth.) _=15.=_ If a player fail to hit another ball, it counts one to his opponent; but if by the same stroke the player’s ball is forced over the table or into any pocket it counts three to his opponent. _=16.=_ Forcing any ball off the table, either before or after the score, causes the striker to gain nothing by the stroke.
He then runs off round the circle, and the one who was touched runs off in the opposite direction round the circle. The aim of each player is to reach the vacant place in the circle first. The one left out has to repeat the same action. The game may go on for any length of time.--Keith (Rev. W. Gregor). At Barnes this game is called Gap. It is known as French Tag in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire (Miss Matthews), and Tap-back at Bitterne, Hants (Mrs. Adam).
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=_ The aim of the player is to draw cards from the stock or discard pile until the pip value of the unmatched cards in his hand amounts to 15 or less. Sequences may run to any length, and four, five, or six of a kind is in order. The cards in hand that do not fit any combination of three or more are deadwood, and the object is to reduce this deadwood to less than fifteen. _=METHOD OF PLAYING.=_ Each player in turn to the left of the dealer draws a card from the stock or the discard pile and discards one in its place, face up. No player is allowed to lay down anything until he can show his whole hand, and then only when his deadwood is fifteen or less, and he is not obliged to lay down even then if he prefers to wait until he can reduce his deadwood still further. _=THE SHOW-DOWN.=_ As soon as any player can show down his hand, the game is at an end. He lays out his combinations and pushes them aside. Then he announces the pip value of his deadwood, after discarding a card in place of the one drawn.
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Please, mother, buy me a milk-can, A milk-can, a milk-can, Please, mother, do. Where s the money coming from, Coming from, coming from, What shall I do? Sell father s feather bed, Feather bed, feather bed, Please mother, do. Where shall the father sleep? Sleep in the servants bed. Where shall the servants sleep? Sleep in the pig-sty. Where shall the pig sleep? Sleep in the washing-tub. What shall I wash in? Wash in a thimble. The shirts won t go in. Wash by the river side. Supposing if I fall in? Good job too! --Hartley Wintney, Winchfield, Hants (H. S.
The number of pips on the card drawn indicates the number of the table at which the player is to sit, and those drawing cards of the same suit are partners for the first game. _=Playing.=_ All being seated, the deal is cut for at each table, and play begins. There is no cutting for partners, that being settled in the original drawing. Five points is a game, and after that number is reached by either side at the head table, the bell is struck. Lone hands are usually barred at the head table, so as to give the other tables time to make a certain number of points, and so to avoid ties. Upon the tap of the bell all play immediately ceases, even if in the middle of a deal. If the players at any but the head table have reached five points before the bell rings, they play on, counting all points made until the bell taps. _=Progressing.=_ The partners winning the game at the head table each receive a gold star, and retain their seats for the next game.
EXTENSIONS AND AMPLIFICATIONS OF LITTLE WAR VI. ENDING WITH A SORT OF CHALLENGE APPENDIX-- LITTLE WARS AND KRIEGSPIEL I OF THE LEGENDARY PAST LITTLE WARS is the game of kings--for players in an inferior social position. It can be played by boys of every age from twelve to one hundred and fifty--and even later if the limbs remain sufficiently supple--by girls of the better sort, and by a few rare and gifted women. This is to be a full History of Little Wars from its recorded and authenticated beginning until the present time, an account of how to make little warfare, and hints of the most priceless sort for the recumbent strategist.... But first let it be noted in passing that there were prehistoric Little Wars. This is no new thing, no crude novelty; but a thing tested by time, ancient and ripe in its essentials for all its perennial freshness--like spring. There was a Someone who fought Little Wars in the days of Queen Anne; a garden Napoleon.
Freeborough has devoted an entire volume to this ending, which may be very much prolonged by a skilful player. The object is to drive the King to the edge of the board, and then to get the Rook in such a position that it must be sacrificed to save the mate, or that the mate can be accomplished with the Rook on the board. The player with the Queen must be on his guard against stale-mate in this ending. K and Q against K and B, K and Kt, or K and P. This is easy enough for the Queen if the player is careful to avoid stale-mate. K and two R’s against K and R. This can be won easily by forcing an exchange of Rooks. K and two B’s against K. In this position the King must be ruled off into a corner by getting the Bishops together, protected by their King. Start with the men in the following position:-- Black K on his own square.
The principle which should guide in the selection of a plain suit for the original lead is, that if there are a number of small cards in one suit, and a few high cards in another, by leading the long suit first, the higher cards in it are forced out of the way, and the high cards in the shorter suit will then bring the holder of the established small cards into the lead again. But if the high cards of the short suit are first led, the long suit of small cards is dead. Having determined whether to lead the trump or the plain suit, the next point is to select the proper card of the suit to lead. At first the beginner need not trouble himself about making any distinction between trumps and plain suits; that will come later. _=Rules for Leading High Cards.=_ Having a strong suit, but without cards of re-entry or trump strength to support it, the best policy is to make tricks while you can. With such a suit as A K Q 2, no one need be told not to begin with the deuce. Whenever a player holds two or more of the best cards of a suit he should play one of them. If he holds both second and third best, playing one of them will force the best out of his way, leaving him with the commanding card. The cards which are recognised by whist players as high, are the A K Q J 10, and if we separate the various combinations from which a player should lead each of them, a study of the groups so formed will greatly facilitate our recollection of them.
The play is to force the Ace, as if the combination of K Q J x x were in one hand. Many opportunities arise for leading the Ace first from a short suit, in order to secure a ruff on the second or third round. _=Second Hand Play.=_ If any card is led by the adversaries which the fourth hand cannot win, the second hand should cover it if possible; for unless he does so, his weakness will be exposed, and the suit will be continued. This is especially true of cases in which the second hand holds single honours, such as Jack and others, or Queen and others. Even the King should be played second hand in such cases, unless it is so well guarded that the Ace must fall before the King can be forced out. If the fourth hand can win the card led, it is seldom necessary to cover second hand. For instance: If the Jack of trumps is led, the dealer holding Q 9 7 4, and Dummy having A 6 3 2; there is no need to play the Queen. If the King is in third hand, such play would establish the Ten. If the King is with the leader, it or the Ten must make.
In the Hurstmonceux version, when the last verse is sung, the girl in the middle rises and picks a boy out of the ring; he goes in the middle with her, and they kiss. The version given by Halliwell is played in the same way as the Barnes version. (_c_) Halliwell (_Game Rhymes_, p. 219) gives a version of a Swedish ballad or ring dance-song, entitled Fair Gundela, he considers this may be a prototype of the English game, or that they may both be indebted to a more primitive original. The Swedish game rather gives the idea of a maiden who has sought supernatural assistance from a wise woman, or witch, to ask after the fate of those dear to her, and the English versions may also be dramatic renderings of a ballad of this character. Mr. Jacobs _More English Fairy Tales_, p. 221, considers this game to have originated from the Tale of the Golden Ball. Mary mixed a Pudding up Mary mixed a pudding up, She mixed it very sweet, She daren t stick a knife in Till John came home at neet [ = night]. Taste John, taste John, don t say nay, Perhaps to-morrow morning will be our wedding-day.
--Northall s _English Folk Rhymes_, p. 393. Battledore and Shuttlecock See Shuttlefeather. Bedlams or Relievo [Illustration: Fig. 1.] [Illustration: Fig. 2.] [Illustration: Fig. 3.] A number of boys agree to play at this game, and sides are picked.
BABBITY Bowster. Bad. Baddin. Badger the Bear. Bag o Malt. Ball. Ball and Bonnets. Ball in the Decker. Ball of Primrose. Baloon.
| -- | -- | |16.| -- | -- | |17.| -- | -- | |18.| -- | -- | |19.| -- | -- | |20.| -- | -- | |21.| -- | -- | |22.|Last to stoop down |We ll all cow down | | |shall be married. |together. | |23.
=_ The player who is second to play on any trick is called the Second Hand. It is his duty to protect himself and his partner, as far as possible, in the adversaries’ strong suits. The chief point for the beginner to observe in Second Hand play, is the difference between the circumstances requiring him to play high cards, and those in which he should play low ones. _=High Cards Led.=_ When a card higher than a Ten is led on the first round of a suit, the Second Hand has usually nothing to do but to play his lowest card, and make what inference he can as to the probable distribution of the suit. But if he holds the Ace, or cards in sequence with it, such A K, he should cover any card higher than a Ten. If he holds K Q he should cover a J, 10, or 9 led; but it is useless for him to cover an honour with a single honour, unless it is the Ace. _=Low Cards Led.=_ High cards are played by the Second Hand when he has any combination from which he would have led a high one if he had opened the suit. The fact that a player on his right has already laid a small card of the suit on the table should not prevent the Second Hand from making the best use of any combinations he may hold.
--Rev. W. Gregor. See Click. Cock-battler Children, under the title of Cock-battler, often in country walks play with the hoary plantain, which they hold by the tough stem about two inches from the head; each in turn tries to knock off the head of his opponent s flower.--Cornwall (_Folk-lore Journal_, v. 61). In the North, and in Suffolk, it is called Cocks, a puerile game with the tough tufted stems of the ribwort plantain (Brockett s _North Country Words_). Moor (_Suffolk Words_) alludes to the game, and Holloway (_Dictionary of Provincialisms_) says in West Sussex boys play with the heads of rib grass a similar game. Whichever loses the head first is conquered.
Now, if C is a good player he will lay down his three aces, even if he faintly suspects B is bluffing, because B’s play is sound in any case. He either could not, or pretended he could not open the jack; but he could afford to pay the limit to draw one card against openers, and he could afford to raise the limit against an opener’s evidently honest two-card draw. As a matter of fact the whole play was a bluff; for B not only had nothing, but had nothing to draw to originally. Another variety of the bluff, which is the author’s own invention, will often prove successful with strangers, but it can seldom be repeated in the same company. Suppose six play in a jack pot. A passes, and B opens it by quietly putting up his counters. C and D pass, and E, pretending not to know that B has opened it, announces that he will open it for the limit, although he has not a pair in his hand. He is of course immediately informed that it has been opened, upon which he unhesitatingly raises it for the limit. Whatever the others do, E stands pat, and looks cheerful. The author has never known this bluff to be called.