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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 ...
Edmond Hoyle (1672 – 29 August 1769) 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; use of the phrase has since expanded to any appeal to a putative authority.
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.
2 or more (originally 2) Deck. Single 52-card. Rank (high→low) K Q J 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 A. 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 ...
The stock is shown at the bottom. Full knowledge of card location allows the player to make informed decisions when multiple moves are possible. The probability of being able to win a game of Klondike with best-possible play is not known, although Hoyle's Rules of Games suggests the chances of winning as being 1 in 30 games.
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.
Contract bridge, or simply bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard 52-card deck. In its basic format, it is played by four players in two competing partnerships, [1] with partners sitting opposite each other around a table. [a] Millions of people play bridge worldwide in clubs, tournaments, online and with friends at home, making ...
500 or Five Hundred is a trick-taking game developed in the United States from Euchre. 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 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 by up ...