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Each player conceals and then reveals a number of coins in their hand. Spoof is a strategy game, typically played as a gambling game, often in bars and pubs where the loser buys the other participants a round of drinks. [1] The exact origin of the game is unknown, but one scholarly paper addressed it, and more general n-coin games, in 1959. [2]
Points still in the losing player's hand may be awarded to the winner. If using a Spanish pack or pip cards from a French pack, a possible scoring system totals the face value of all cards. If using a shortened French pack minus the 8s, 9s and 10s, one scoring system gives face value for 2–7, 10 for jacks, queens and kings, and 15 for aces.
Robert Frederick Foster published the rules of "Euchre for Five Players" in 1897. They are the same as his seven-handed version, but with a pack of just 28 cards and no joker. Five cards each are dealt in two rounds of 2 then 3 cards each, leaving a widow of 3 cards. A player bidding 3 tricks takes one partner; 4 or 5 tricks, 2 partners.
Penny football (also coin football, sporting coin, spoin, table football, tabletop football, [1] or shove ha'penny football [2]) is a coin game played upon a table top. The aim of the game is for a player to score more goals with the pennies than their opponent. [3] The game has been in existence since at least 1959. [4]
Marriage is a matching card game played with three decks of cards in Nepal, Bhutan, Banthara and by the Nepali diaspora. It is based on making sets of three matching cards of the same rank (trials), the same rank and suit (tunnels), or three consecutive cards of the same suit (sequences).
After each round of the game, each player earns points for a running total as follows: Lowest score in the round: 1 point (or 0 if that player Knocked) Middle score(s) in the round: 2 points (or 1 if that player Knocked) Highest score in the round: 3 points (or 4 if that player Knocked) Blitz (31) – 6 points; All ties get highest score possible.
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Brag is an 18th century British card game, and the British national representative of the vying or "bluffing" family of gambling games. [1] It is a descendant of the Elizabethan game of Primero [2] and one of the several ancestors to poker, the modern version just varying in betting style and hand rankings.