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  2. Edmond Hoyle - Wikipedia

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    Edmond Hoyle (1672 – 29 August 1769) [2] was an English writer best known for his works on the rules and play of card games.The phrase "according to Hoyle" (meaning "strictly according to the rules") came into the language as a reflection of his broadly perceived authority on the subject; [2] use of the phrase has since expanded to any appeal to a putative authority.

  3. Spite and malice - Wikipedia

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    Spite and malice, also known as cat and mouse, is a relatively modern American card game for two or more players. [1] It is a reworking of the late 19th-century Continental game crapette, [1] also known as Russian bank, and is a form of competitive solitaire, with a number of variations that can be played with two or three regular decks of cards.

  4. Rules of cribbage - Wikipedia

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    Five-card cribbage (called the "old game"): The two players are dealt five cards each, two of which are discarded into the crib. The crib thus consists of four cards but each hand only three. The first non-dealer gets a three-point start, the play (pegging) goes up to 31 only once and does not restart.

  5. Hoyle's Official Book of Games - Wikipedia

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    Hoyle's Official Book of Games. Hoyle's Official Book of Games (later Hoyle Classic, Hoyle Card Games, or the Hoyle Series) is a series of computer games released from 1989 to 2016 that was initially developed and published by Sierra On-Line. The series focuses primarily on playing cards, but has also included board games, puzzles, dice, and ...

  6. 500 (card game) - Wikipedia

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    500 or Five Hundred is a trick-taking game developed in the United States from Euchre. [1] Euchre was extended to a 10 card game with bidding and a Misère contract similar to Russian Preference, producing a cutthroat three-player game like Preference [2] and a four-player game played in partnerships like Whist which is the most popular modern form, although with special packs it can be played ...

  7. Euchre - Wikipedia

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    Euchre or eucre ( / ˈjuːkər / YU-kər) is a trick-taking card game commonly played in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, New Zealand, and the Midwestern United States. It is played with a deck of 24, 25, 28, or 32 standard playing cards. There are normally four players, two on each team, although there are variations for two to nine players.

  8. Rummy - Wikipedia

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    Rummy is a group of games related by the feature of matching cards of the same rank or sequence and same suit. The basic goal in any form of rummy is to build melds which can be either sets (three or four of a kind of the same rank) or runs (three or more sequential cards of the same suit) and either be first to go out or to amass more points than the opposition.

  9. This One Mistake Can Tank Your Credit Score 100 Points ... - AOL

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    “You can expect your credit score to drop anywhere between 100 to over 200 points, depending on where your score started,” said Zarrad. According to Debt.org, high scores of 780 and up can ...