At least two cards must be left in each packet, and the upper part of the pack must be placed nearer the dealer. Five cards are given to each player, and the eleventh is turned up for the trump. The cards are distributed two and three at a time, or three and then two, and in whichever manner the dealer begins he must continue during the game. If he intends to change his manner of dealing in the following game, he must so advise his adversary when presenting the cards to be cut. _=MISDEALING.=_ A player dealing out of turn, or with the wrong cards, may be stopped before the trump is turned. But if the trump has been turned, and neither player has discarded or played to the first trick, the pack must be set aside, with the cards as dealt, and the trump turned, to be used for the ensuing deal. The other pack is then taken up and dealt by the player whose proper turn it was to deal. If a discard has been made, or a trick played to, the deal stands good, and the packs, if changed, must so remain. There must be a new deal if any card but the eleventh is found faced in the pack.
II. King William was King David s son, All the royal race is run; Choose from the east, choose from the west, Choose the one that you love best; If she s not here to take her part, Choose another with all your heart. --Sheffield (S. O. Addy). (_b_) In Sheffield a ring of young men and women is formed. A man goes inside the ring and walks round within it, whilst the others sing the verse. The young man then chooses a sweetheart, and the two walk round arm-in-arm within the ring, whilst the same verses are sung. When the singing is ended, the girl picks a young man, and so they all pair off. (_c_) Mr.
Of three unknown cards, it is 7 to 1 against his holding all three, or none of them; or about an equal chance that he holds two of the three; or one only. If Dummy holds any of the weak suits just given, you holding nothing higher than the Ten, you should lead it. Suppose you have 10 9 6; Dummy having A 3 2. The K Q J may be distributed in eight different ways, in any of which your partner will pass your Ten if second hand does not cover. In four cases, second hand would cover with the King, and in one with the Queen and Jack. In the remaining three your partner’s hand would be benefited. If Dummy has King and one or two small cards, it is not so disadvantageous to lead up to the King as would at first appear; because it is forced out of his hand on the first round, unless declarer plays Ace, and it is usually good policy to force out Dummy’s cards of re-entry early in the hand. In leading from high-card combinations, the usual bridge leads should be followed; but exceptions must be made on the second round when certain cards are in Dummy’s hand. For instance: With A K J and others, it is usual to stop after the first round, and wait for the finesse of the Jack. This is obviously useless if the Queen is not in Dummy’s hand.
_=B=_ having made his point, _=C=_ deals, and it is then to the interest of _=B=_ to let _=C=_ make his point. Suppose _=C=_ makes a march, 3 points, which puts him on a level with _=A=_. On _=A’s=_ deal it is _=C’s=_ game to euchre him, but _=B=_ must let _=A=_ make his point; so that instead of being opposed by both _=B=_ and _=C=_, as he was a moment ago, _=A=_ finds a friend in _=B=_, and the two who were helping each other to beat _=A=_, are now cutting each other’s throats. On _=B’s=_ deal, _=A=_ does not want to euchre him, for although that would win the game for both _=A=_ and _=C=_, _=A=_, who now has 4 points up, does not wish to divide the pool with _=C=_ while he has such a good chance to win it all himself. Suppose _=B=_ makes his point. _=A=_ will do all he can to euchre _=C=_, but _=B=_ will oppose the scheme, because his only chance for the game is that _=A=_ will not be able to take up the trump on his own deal, and that _=B=_ will make a march. SET-BACK EUCHRE. This is simply a reversal of the ordinary method of scoring, the players starting with a certain number of points, usually ten, and deducting what they make on each deal. The peculiarity which gives the game its name is that if a player is euchred he is _=set back=_ two points, his adversaries counting nothing. The revoke penalty is settled in the same way.
In this case each hole contains a peg about nine inches long, upon which are deposited either a small knife or some copper. The person playing gives so much for each stick, and gets all the articles that are thrown off so as to fall on the outside of the holes.--Northumberland (Brockett s _North Country Glossary_). All the Birds in the Air A Suffolk game, not described (Moor s _Suffolk Glossary_). Jamieson also gives it without description. Compare the rhyme in the game Fool, fool, come to School, Little Dog, I call you. All the Boys in our Town I. All the boys in our town Shall lead a happy life, Except tis ----, and he wants a wife. A wife he shall have, and a-courting he shall go, Along with ----, because he loves her so. He huddles her, he cuddles her, He sits her on his knee; He says, My dear, do you love me? I love you, and you love me, And we shall be as happy As a bird upon a tree.
Each domino, as played, is laid face upward on the table, the ends abutting, and doublets being laid across, or at right angles to the line. The principal games are divided into two classes; those in which the object is to _=block=_ a player, so that he cannot follow suit, and those in which the object is to make the ends of the line some multiple of _=five=_ or _=three=_. The Block Game will be described first. _=THE BLOCK GAME.=_ Each player draws seven dominoes, and the one whose turn it is to set lays down any domino he pleases. If a good player, he will select one of his longest suit, especially if he has three or more, and his object will be to get the line back to his suit as often as possible. If a player had to set with the hand of dominoes shown in the foregoing diagram, he would select the 5-0, because he has four of the 5 suit, and three of the 0 suit. This would compel his adversary to play some domino having upon it a 5 or a 0. Let us suppose this adversary to hold the following dominoes: 6-6, 6-3, 6-1, 6-0, 5-1, 5-0. He would of course play the 6-0, in order to bring the line round to his long suit of 6’s.
Half-Hammer. Han -and-Hail. Hand in and Hand out. Handy-Croopen. Handy Dandy. Hap the Beds. Hard Buttons. Hare and Hounds. Harie Hutcheon. Hark the Robbers.
_=3.=_ Each player draws a domino, face down, and the one getting the lower double sets first. If neither draws a double the lighter domino sets. The dominoes are then shuffled again by both players, and each draws the number of pieces required by the game they are about to play. The dominoes remaining on the table are left face down, and form the _=stock=_ or _=bone-yard=_. Each player should sort his dominoes into suits, and either leave them standing on their edges on the table with their faces toward him, or hold them in his hand. Few persons can hold more than six dominoes in this way, so the seventh is left upon the table, or is the first one set. [Illustration] _=Matching.=_ All games of dominoes are based upon the principle of matching, or following suit; which requires that each domino played shall belong to the same suit as one of the exposed ends of the line of dominoes already played, and exposed upon the table. In playing a domino, it must be so placed that the end of it shall match and adjoin the exposed end of the line; a six being played to a six, a four to a four, and so on.
=_ Any player stating that he bets a certain amount, but failing to put up the actual counters in the pool, cannot be called upon to make the amount good after the hands are shown, or the pool is won. If the players opposed to him choose to accept a mouth bet against the counters they have already put up, they have no remedy, as no value is attached to what a player says; his cards and his counters speak for themselves. Any player wishing to raise a mouth bet has the privilege of raising by mouth, instead of by counters; but he cannot be called upon to make the amount good after the hands are shown, or the pool has been won. _=34. Showing Hands.=_ When a call is made, all the hands must be shown to the table, and the best poker hand wins the pool. Any player declining to show his hand, even though he admits that it is not good, must pay an amount equal to the ante to each of the players at the table; or, if jack pots are played, he must put up for all of them in the next jack pot. When the hands are called, there is no penalty for mis-calling a hand; the cards, like the counters, speak for themselves. _=35. Rank of the Hands.
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--- | 1| 2| 3| 4| 5| 6| 7| 8| 9| 10| 11| 12| 13 -----------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--- Five | 11| 21| 31| 41| 50| | | | | | | | Six | 15| 24| 35| 45| 55| 66| | | | | | | Seven | 19| 29| 40| 50| 60| 72| 82| | | | | | Eight | 23| 34| 46| 56| 67| 78| 89|110| | | | | Nine | 33| 44| 57| 68| 82| 92|103|115|127| | | | Ten | 44| 56| 70| 82| 94|107|119|132|145|157| | | Eleven | 67| 80| 95|109|123|138|151|165|180|194|208| | Twelve |113|130|148|165|182|200|217|234|252|270|286|304| Thirteen |177|198|222|241|262|284|305|326|348|369|390|412|433 -----------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--- We give the same table reduced to the American decimal system, in which form it is commonly found in the clubs. It may be remarked in passing that the table is very illogical and inconsistent, the payments bearing no relation to the probabilities of the events. Some of them provide for impossibilities, unless the player has miscalled the trump suit, and is held to it, but we have no authority to change them. --------+---------------------------------------------------- | Number of tricks bidder is “put in for.” Tricks +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---- bid. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10| 11| 12| 13 --------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---- Five | 10| 20| 30| 40| 50| | | | | | | | Six | 15| 25| 35| 45| 55| 65| | | | | | | Seven | 20| 30| 40| 50| 60| 70| 80| | | | | | Eight | 25| 35| 45| 55| 70| 85|100|115| | | | | Nine | 35| 45| 55| 65| 80| 95|110|125|140| | | | Ten | 45| 55| 70| 80| 95|110|125|140|155|170| | | Eleven | 70| 80| 95|110|125|140|155|170|185|200|220| | Twelve |120|130|145|160|180|200|220|240|260|280|300|320| Thirteen|180|200|220|240|260|280|300|320|340|360|390|420|450 --------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---- If a misère is bid, the caller wins from, or loses to each adversary according to the following table, there being no over-tricks:-- Little Misère, 20 white counters. Grand Misère, 40 white counters. Little Spread, 80 white counters. Grand Spread, 160 white counters. It may be observed that each of these is twice the amount of the next lower.
But if the adversary can demonstrate that the inferior announcement was not actually good against the cards, and that it was possible for him to hold a better, the score for the higher combination is lost. For instance: A player holds four Kings and three Aces, and on glancing over his hand and discards, sees that his adversary cannot hold any quatorze, so he declares the three Kings, instead of the four Aces. Suppose he mistook a Nine for a Ten, and overlooked the fact that his adversary might have had four Tens, the score for the four Kings would be lost, but the three Aces would be good if his adversary had discarded a Ten, and did not actually hold four. In the ordinary game, the higher combination is lost if it is not called. In play, every card led, whatever its value, counts one, and winning the trick counts one also. The last trick counts two, and the capot forty. Pic and repic are reckoned as in the ordinary game. _=Scoring.=_ Instead of playing 100 points up, six deals is a game, each player dealing three times. The lower score is then deducted from the higher, and 100 points added to the difference to determine the value of the game, which is usually played for so much a point.
1st trick. 2nd trick. 3rd trick. 3 or less 3 4 5 4 exactly 4 5 3 5 ” 4 3 5 6 ” 5 3 4 7 or more 5 4 3 The second of these is the four-signal; the last three are trump signals. They are used only in following suit. The four-signal is sometimes used in the trump suit as a _=Sub-echo=_, to show three trumps exactly. Apart from signalling, trump strength may often be inferred, especially from player’s passing doubtful tricks, forcing their partners, etc. _=Trump Suit Leads.=_ When trumps are not led for the purpose of exhausting them immediately, but simply as the longest suit, the fourth-best may be led from the following:-- [Illustration: 🂱 🂾 🂷 🂶 🂴 | 🃎 🃍 🃆 🃅 🂡 🂨 🂧 🂤 🂢 | 🃞 🃛 🃚 🃖 ] If the Ten accompanies the King and Queen, in the third combination, it is best to adhere to the usual lead of the King. In leading trumps from combinations containing a winning sequence, such as the following:-- [Illustration: 🂱 🂾 🂽 🂻 🂷 | 🃁 🃎 🃍 🃄 🃃 ] many players begin with the lowest of the winning cards, continuing with the next above it.