CONTENTS.

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A list of terms, [674]
Ace in the Pot, dice, [617]
All Fours Family, [324]
All Fives, [329]
Auction Pitch, [330]
Blind All Fours, [325]
California Jack, [330]
Cinch, [334]
Commercial Pitch, [330]
Dom Pedro, [334]
Double Pedro, [334]
High Five, [334]
Old Sledge, [325]
Pedro, [333]
Pedro Sancho, [333]
Sell-out, [330]
Seven-up, [325]
Shasta Sam, [330]
Smudge, [333]
Snoozer, [334]
Ambigu, [259]
American Billiard Laws, [627]
American Laws of Bridge, [48]
American Pyramid Pool, [631]
American Skat, [434]
Auction Binocle, [407]
Auction Bridge, [xxv]
Cards Played in Error, [xxxi]
Declarer’s Play, [22]
Discarding, [21]
Ducking, [25]
Dummy, [xxx]
Eleven Rule, [13]
Encouraging Discards, [22]
Exposed Cards, [xxxi]
Finessing, [24]
Fourth-hand Play, [21]
Illustrative Auction Hands, [27]
Irregularities in Declaring, [xxix]
Irregularities in the Deal, [xxvii]
Leading High Cards, [6]
Leading Out of Turn, [xxxi]
Leading Second Round, [9]
Leading Short Suits, [8]
Leading Small Cards, [9]
Leading Trumps, [11]
Making the Trump, [xxvii]
No-trump Leads, [11]
Nullo, [26]
Scoring, [26]
Suggestions for Bidding, [26]
Suggestions for the Play, [26]
Opening Leads, [5]
Penalties, [1]
Playing against Dummy, [14]
Playing to the Score, [21]
Pone’s Lead, [11]
Rank of the Bids, [xxviii]
Returning Suits, [14]
Revoke, [xxx]
Scoring, [xxxii]
Second-hand Play, [17]
Selecting the Suit to Lead, [6]
Suggestions for Good Play, [3]
Third-hand Play, [12], [19]
Auction Cinch, [340]
Auction Euchre, [279]
Auction Hearts, [354]
Auction Pitch, [330]
Authors, [500]
Baccara, [521]
Baccara Chemin de Fer, [526]
Backgammon, [590]
Opening Throws, [595]
English Game, [598]
American Game, [599]
The Laws, [601]
Russian Backgammon, [602]
Banking Games, [516]
Bank-shot Billiards, [626]
Base-ball with dice, [617]
Baulk-line Billiards, [625]
Bergen Game, dominoes, [609]
Bézique Family, [374]
Bézique, [375]
Chinese Bézique, [394]
Chouette Bézique, [394]
Penchant, [384]
Rubicon Bézique, [386]
Cinq-Cents, [383]
Four-handed, [382]
Polish Bézique, [382]
Three-handed, [382]
Bid Euchre, [287]
Bid Whist, [687]
Bierspiel, [319]
Billiards and Pool, [620]
American Game, [624]
Amer. Pyramid Pool, [631]
Baulk-line Billiards, [625]
Black Pool, [642]
Books on Billiards, [650]
Bottle Pool, [649]
Chicago Pool, [633]
Colour-ball Pool, [639]
Continuous Pool, [632]
Cow-boy Pool, [634]
Cushion Caroms, [626]
English Billiards, [643]
English Pool, [639]
English Pyramid Pool, [632]
English Billiard Laws, [644]
Fifteen-ball Pool, [629]
Forty-one Pool, [633]
High-low-jack Game, [633]
Laws of Billiards, American, [627]
Little Corporal, [648]
Pin Pool, [647]
Shell Out Pool, [632]
Snooker Pool, [636]
Spanish Game of Billiards, [649]
Binochle, [395]
Melds, [398]
Auction Binochle, [407]
Gaigel, [406]
Three-handed, [405]
Four-handed, [407]
Black Jack or Lady, [356]
Black Pool, English, [642]
Blind All Fours, [325]
Blind Cinch, [340]
Blind Euchre, [278]
Blind Hookey, [527]
Block Game, dominoes, [606]
Bluff, poker, [245]
Boodle, [507]
Books on Billiards, [650]
Boston, [165]
Payments, [171]
French Boston, [179]
Russian Boston, [183]
Boston de Fontainebleau, [174]
Bottle Pool, [649]
Bouillotte, [254]
Bowling Alley Laws, [662]
Brag, poker, [250]
Brelan, [254]
Bridge, [xxv], [28]
Bridge Laws, [41]
Bridge Tactics, [28]
Doubling, [32]
Illustrative Hand, [34]
Making the Trump, [28], [31]
Opening Leads, [33]
Text Books, [59]
Bridge, Varieties of, [35]
Auction Bridge, [xxv]
Bridge for Three, [36]
Bridge for Two, [36]
Double Dummy Bridge, [39]
Draw Bridge, [40]
Duplicate Auction, [35]
Duplicate Bridge, [38]
King’s Bridge, [40]
Misery Bridge, [37]
Pivot Bridge, [37]
Progressive Bridge, [38]
Reversi Bridge, [40]
Short Bridge, [40]
Six-hand Bridge, [39]
Three-hand Auction, [35]
Calabrasella, [489]
California Jack, [330]
Call-ace Euchre, [287]
Canfield, [693]
Cartomancie, [513]
Cassino, [478]
Spade Cassino, [485]
21 Point Cassino, [484]
Royal Cassino, [485]
Draw Cassino, [485]
Catch the Ten, [159]
Cayenne, [138]
Centennial, dice, [618]
Chance, and its Laws, [651]
Concurrent Events, [654]
Conflicting Events, [654]
Dice Probabilities, [655]
Distribution of Suits, [656]
Distribution of Trumps, [656]
Doubling up Bets, [657]
Luck, [651]
Martingales, [657]
Maturity of the Chances, [652]
Playing Progression, [658]
Poker Probabilities, [655]
Successive Event, [652]
Whist Probabilities, [656]
Checkers, [577]
The Openings, [580]
The Four Positions, [582]
Theory of the Move, [584]
Illustrative Games, [586]
Devil and Tailors, [587]
Checker Laws, [588]
Losing Game, [587]
Polish Draughts, [587]
Chemin de fer, [526]
Chess, [546]
The Openings, [557]
The Endings, [567]
Games at Odds, [565]
Knights’ Tour, [570]
American Laws, [571]
Chicago Pool, [633]
Chinese Bézique, [394]
Chinese Fan Tan, [528]
Chinese Whist, [184]
Chouette Bézique, [394]
Chuck Luck, [540]
Cinch, [334]
Auction Cinch, [340]
Blind Cinch, [340]
Progressive Cinch, [340]
Sixty-three, [340]
Widow Cinch, [341]
Illustrative Hands, [342]
Cinch Laws, [344]
Razzle-Dazzle, [340]
Cinq-Cents, [383]
Colour-ball Pool, [639]
Commerce, [252]
Commercial Pitch, [330]
Commit, [503]
Compass Whist, [113]
Continuous Pool, [632]
Conquian, [486]
Cow-boy Pool, [634]
Cushion Carroms, [626]
Craps, dice, [614]
Cribbage, [442]
Five-card Cribbage, [460]
Six-card Cribbage, [444]
Seven-card Cribbage, [462]
Solitaire Cribbage, [700]
Three-hand Cribbage, [461]
Four-hand Cribbage, [461]
Cut-throat Euchre, [277]
Dice Games, [611]
Ace in the Pot, [617]
Base-Ball, [616]
Centennial, [618]
Chuck-Luck, [540]
Crap Shooting, [614]
Going to Boston, [617]
Help Your Neighbour, [619]
Law of Chances, [613]
Multiplication, [618]
Passe Dix, [619]
Poker Dice, [615]
Probabilities, [655]
Raffles, [613]
Round the Spot, [618]
Sweat, [540]
Ten Pins, [616]
Throwing Dice, [612]
Under and Over Seven, [543]
Vingt-et-un, [618]
Discard Hearts, [356]
Distribution of Suits, Whist, [657]
Distribution of Trumps, Whist, [657]
Division Loo, [319]
Doctrine of Chances, [651]
Domino Hearts, [357]
Dominoes, [605]
All Fives, [609]
All Threes, [610]
Bergen Game, [609]
Block Game, [606]
Draw Game, [608]
Domino Pool, [609]
Matadore, [608]
Muggins, [609]
Sebastopol, [609]
Dom Pedro, [334]
Double Dummy Bridge, [39]
Double Dummy Whist, [130]
Double Pedro, [334]
Doubling-up Bets, [657]
Draughts, [577]
Draw Bridge, [47]
Draw Cassino, [485]
Draw Game, dominoes, [608]
Draw Poker, [208]
Drive Whist, [687]
Dummy, [127]
Duplicate Bridge, [45]
Duplicate Whist, [100]
Apparatus Necessary, [102]
Club against Club, [103]
Compass Whist, [113]
Foster’s Pair System, [115]
Gilman’s Team System, [109]
Howell Pair System, [114]
Individual against Individual, [114]
Laws of Duplicate Whist, [119]
Married Couples System, [118]
Memory Duplicate, [110]
Pair against Pair, [110]
Safford’s Systems, [116]
Team against Team, [105]
Dutch Bank, [527]
Earl of Coventry, [502]
Ecarté, [293]
Jeu de règle, [299]
Pool Ecarté, [306]
Enflé, [370]
English Billiards, [643]
English Billiard Laws, [644]
English Following Pool, [639]
English Pyramid Pool, [632]
English Whist Laws, [196]
Euchre Family of Games, [263]
Euchre, [264]
Auction Euchre, [279]
Bid Euchre, or 500, [287]
Blind Euchre, [278]
Call-ace Euchre, [287]
Cut-Throat, [277]
Five-handed, [286]
French Euchre, [279]
Jambone, [283]
Jamboree, [283]
Laps, [283]
Laws of Euchre, [288]
Military Euchre, [281]
Penalty Euchre, [279]
Progressive Euchre, [280]
Railroad Euchre, [282]
Set-Back Euchre, [278]
Seven-handed Euchre, [284]
Slams, [283]
Fan Tan, [528]
Fan Tan with Cards, [509]
Farmer, or Ferme, [520]
Faro, [529]
Favourite Whist, [99]
Fifteen-ball Pool, [629]
Five-card Cribbage, [460]
Five-card Loo, [323]
Five-handed Euchre, [286]
Five Hundred, [287]
Five and Ten, [316]
Five or Nine, [509]
Flat Poker, [229]
Following Pool, [639]
Fortune Telling, [513]
Forty-five, [316]
Forty-one Pool, [633]
Four-ball Billiards, [626]
Four-handed Cribbage, [461]
” ” Bézique, [382]
” ” Binocle, [407]
” ” Sixty-six, [413]
Four Jacks, [369]
Freeze-out, poker, [228]
French Boston, [179]
French Carrom Game, [624]
French Dummy, [133]
French Euchre, [279]
French Games:—
Ambigu, [259]
Baccara, [521]
Bouillotte, [254]
Cinq-Cents, [383]
Ferme, [520]
Humbug Whist, [132]
Impérial, [476]
Macao, [520]
Mort, [133]
Nain Jaune, [505]
Rouge et Noir, [534]
Roulette, [536]
Trente et Quarante, [534]
Vingt-et-un, [517]
Frog, [441]
Gaigel, [406]
General Laws, Card Games, [671]
German Games:—
Binocle, [395]
Kreutz Mariage, [413]
Schwellen, [370]
Sixty-six, [408]
Skat, [415]
Solo, [493]
Go-bang, [604]
Going to Boston, dice, [617]
Halma, [604]
Hazard, dice, [540], [614]
Hearts:—, [349]
Auction Hearts, [354]
Black Jack, [356]
Black Lady, [356]
Discard Hearts, [356]
Domino Hearts, [357]
Heartsette, [357]
Howell’s Hearts, [352]
Illustrative Hands, [366]
Joker Hearts, [355]
Laws of Hearts, [371]
Progressive Hearts, [356]
Spot Hearts, [355]
Sweepstake Hearts, [352]
Three-handed Hearts, [354]
Two-handed, [354]
Heart Solo, [498]
Heartsette, [357]
Help Your Neighbour, dice, [619]
High Five, [334]
High-low-jack, [325]
” ” ” Pool, [633]
Howell Pairs, Whist, [114]
Howell’s Hearts, [352]
Humbug Whist, [132]
I Doubt It, [695]
Impérial, [476]
Irish Loo, [323]
Jack Pots, poker, [223]
Jambone, euchre, [283]
Jamboree, euchre, [283]
Jass, [696]
Two-hand Jass, [697]
Jeu de Règle, écarté, [299]
Jink Game, spoil five, [315]
Joker Hearts, [355]
Keno, or Lotto, [539]
King’s Bridge, [40]
Klondike, [512]
Kreutz Mariage, [413]
Lansquenet, [543]
Laps, euchre, [283]
Law of Chances, [651]
Laws of all Games, [671]
Laws, Official Codes for:—
Backgammon, [601]
Billiards, American, [627]
Billiards, English, [644]
Bowling, or Ten Pins, [662]
Bridge, [41]
Chess, [571]
Checkers, [588]
Cinch, [344]
Euchre, [288]
Hearts, [371]
Poker, [238]
Skat, [435]
Ten Pins, or Bowling, [662]
Whist, American, [186]
Whist, Duplicate, [119]
Whist, English, [196]
Laws of Probabilities, [651]
Lift Smoke, [502]
Little Corporal, [648]
Loo, or Division Loo, [319]
Five-card Loo, [323]
Irish Loo, [323]
Losing Game, draughts, [587]
Lotto, [539]
Luck, [651]
Macao, [520]
Man-of-war Billiards, [644]
Martingales, [657]
Matadore, dominoes, [608]
Matrimony, [504]
Maturity of the Chances, [652]
Memory Duplicate, [110]
Military Euchre, [281]
Misery Bridge, [37]
Mistigris, poker, [216]
Monte Bank, [542]
Monte Carlo Betting Limit, [658]
Morelles, [604]
Mort, [133]
Muggins, dominoes, [609]
Multiplication, dice, [618]
My Bird Sings, [253]
My Ship Sails, [253]
Nain Jaune, [505]
Napoleon, [307]
National Games:—, [414]
America, Cassino, [478]
England, Cribbage, [442]
Germany, Skat, [415]
France, Piquet, [463]
Italy, Calabrasella, [489]
Mexico, Conquian, [486]
Newmarket, [507]
Nine Men’s Morris, [604]
Norwegian Whist, [688]
Odd Games, [497]
Old Maid, [501]
Old Sledge, [325]
Patience Games, [510]
Patience Poker, [698]
Pedro, [333]
Peep Nap, [312]
Penalty Euchre, [279]
Penchant, [384]
Pinochle, [395]
Pin Pool, [632]
Piquet, [463]
Piquet Normand, [473]
Piquet Voleur, [473]
Piquet a Ecrire, [474]
Rubicon Piquet, [475]
Pitch, [325]
Pivot Bridge, [37]
Playing Progression, [658]
Pochen, [508]
Poker Family of Games, [207]
Poker, [207]
Bluff, [245]
Bluffing, [237]
Cheating, [229]
Draw Poker, [208]
Eccentric Hands, [215]
Flat Poker, [229]
Freeze Out, [228]
Going In, [232]
Good Play, [231]
How to Win, [236]
Jack Pots, [223]
Joker Poker, [216]
Mistigris, [216]
Odds against Hands, [216]
Patience Poker, [698]
Poker Gin, [692]
Poker Rum, [691]
Poker Laws, [238]
Probabilities, [217], [233], [655]
Progressive Poker, [248]
Rank of Hands, [213]
Schnautz, [248]
Show-down Poker, [229]
Straight Poker, [245]
Stud Poker, [246]
Table Stakes, [227]
Text-books, [262]
Thirty-one, [248]
Whiskey Poker, [247]
Poker Dice, [615]
Polignac, [369]
Polish Bézique, [382]
Polish Draughts, [587]
Pool Games:—
Amer. Pyramid Pool, [631]
Black Pool, English, [642]
Bottle Pool, [649]
Chicago Pool, [633]
Colour-ball Pool, [639]
Continuous Pool, [632]
Cow-boy Pool, [634]
English Pyramid Pool, [632]
Eng. Following Pool, [639]
Fifteen-ball Pool, [629]
Following Pool, [639]
Forty-one Pool, [633]
High-low-jack Pool, [633]
Little Corporal, [648]
Pin Pool, [647]
Shell Out, [632]
Spanish Pool, [649]
Pool with Dominoes, [609]
Pool Ecarté, [306]
Pope Joan, [505]
Preference, [496]
Probabilities, [651]
Progressive Bridge, [38]
Progressive Cinch, [340]
Progressive Euchre, [280]
Progressive Hearts, [356]
Progressive Poker, [248]
Progressive Whist, [119]
Prussian Whist, [98]
Purchase Nap, [311]
Pyramid Pool, [631]
Quatre Valets, [369]
Quinze, [521]
Raffles, dice, [613]
Railroad Euchre, [282]
Rams, [317]
Ranter Go Round, [508]
Razzle-Dazzle, [340]
Reversi, [603]
Reversi Bridge, [40]
Rondeau, [541]
Rouge et Noir, [534]
Roulette, [536]
Rounce, [319]
Round the Spot, dice, [618]
Royal Cassino, [485]
Rubicon Bézique, [386]
Rubicon Piquet, [475]
Rum, [689]
Double-pack Rum, [692]
Single-pack Rum, [689]
Poker Gin, [692]
Poker Rum, [691]
Russian Backgammon, [602]
Russian Boston, [183]
Sancho Pedro, [333]
Saratoga, [507]
Scat, see [Skat], [415]
Schnautz, [248]
Schwellen, [370]
Scotch Whist, [159]
Sebastopol, dominoes, [609]
Sell Out, [330]
Set-back Euchre, [278]
Seven-handed Euchre, [284]
Seven-card Cribbage, [462]
Seven-up, [325]
Shasta Sam, [330]
Shell-out Pool, [632]
Shooting Craps, [614]
Short Bridge, [47]
Show-down Poker, [229]
Shuffle Board, [619]
Six-card Cribbage, [444]
Six-hand Bridge, [39]
Sixty-four Card Binocle, [375]
Sixty-three, cinch, [340]
Sixty-six, [408]
Four-handed, [413]
Kreutz Mariage, [413]
Three-handed, [413]
Skat, [415], [434]
Game Values, [421]
Scoring, [427]
Illustrative Hands, [432]
Skat Laws, [435]
Slams, euchre, [283]
Slobberhannes, [368]
Smudge, [333]
Snip-snap-snorem, [502]
Snooker Pool, [649]
Snoozer, [334]
Solitaires, [510], [693], [698], [700]
Solo, [498]
Three-handed Solo, [499]
Solo Whist, [144]
Spade Cassino, [485]
Spanish Monte, [542]
Spanish Pool, [649]
Speculation, [501]
Spin, [507]
Spoil Five, [312]
Spot Hearts, [355]
Stops, [507]
Straight Poker, [245]
Stud Poker, [246]
Sweat, dice, [540]
Sweepstake Hearts, [352]
Table Games, [544]
Table Stakes, poker, [227]
Technical Terms, [674]
Telling Fortunes, [513]
Ten Pins, or Bowling, [660]
American Ten Pins, [662]
Battle Game, [665]
Cocked Hat, [664]
Cocked Hat & Feather, [665]
“Don’ts”for Players, [669]
Duck Pin Game, [669]
Five Back, [668]
Four Back, [667]
Head Pin; four back, [666]
Head Pin Out, [667]
Kinsley Candle Pin, [669]
Newport Game, [668]
Nine Up and Nine Down, [666]
Ten Pins with Dice, [616]
Three-card Monte, [542]
Thirty-one, poker, [248]
Three-cushion Carroms, [626]
Three-handed Auction, [35]
” ” Bézique, [382]
” ” Bridge, [36]
” ” Cribbage, [461]
” ” Hearts, [354]
” ” Binocle, [405]
” ” Sixty-six, [413]
Throwing Dice, [612]
Trente et Quarante, [534]
Tric-trac, [590]
Twenty-one Point Cassino, [484]
Two-handed Bridge, [36]
” ” Hearts, [354]
Under and over Seven, [543]
Varieties of Bridge, [42]
Vingt-et-un, [517]
Vingt-et-un with Dice, [518]
Vint, [493]
Whiskey Poker, [247]
Whist Family of Games, [xvii]
Whist, [60]
American Laws, [186]
Auction Bridge, [xxv]
Bridge, [xxv], [28]
Bid Whist, [687]
Cayenne Whist, [138]
Chinese Whist, [184]
Double Dummy, [130]
Dummy, [127]
Dummy Laws, [206]
Drive Whist, [687]
Duplicate Whist, [100]
English Laws, [196]
Favourite Whist, [99]
French Whist, [164]
German Whist, [183]
Humbug Whist, [131]
Memory Duplicate, [110]
Mort, [133]
Norwegian Whist, [688]
Probabilities, [656]
Progressive Whist, [119]
Prussian Whist, [98]
Scotch Whist, [159]
Solo Whist, [144]
Text Books, [99]
Thirteen and the Odd, [132]
Whist Family Laws, [186]
Whist Tactics, [70]
Albany Lead, [86]
American Game, [94]
American Laws, [186]
American Leads, [88]
Conventional Plays, [70]
Deschapelles Coups, [91]
Discarding, [80]
Discard Signals, [90]
Echo in Plain Suits, [90]
Echo in Trumps, [86]
Eleven Rule, [79]
False Cards, [92]
Finessing, [92]
Forcing, [80]
Four-signal, [86]
Fourth-hand Play, [84]
General Directions, [60]
General Principles, [68]
High-card Leads, [72]
How to Study, [70]
Illustrative Hands, [97]
Inferences, [93]
Inviting a Ruff, [88]
Leader’s Partner, [78]
Leading Plain Suits, [72]
Leading Short Suits, [91]
Leading Trumps, [71]
Low Card Leads, [74]
Low’s Signal, [90]
Methods of Cheating, [67]
Method of Playing, [61]
Minneapolis Lead, [89]
Partner’s Duties, [78]
Placing the Lead, [92]
Plain-suit Echo, [90]
Playing to the Score, [92]
Returning Partner’s Suits, [80]
Scoring, [64]
Second-hand Play, [81]
Short-suit Game, [91-94]
Short-suit Leads, [74-61]
Signal Game, [85]
Stacking Tricks, [63]
Suggestions for Good Play, [67]
Tenace Positions, [91]
Third Hand Play, [78]
Trump Signals, [85]
Unblocking, [90]
Underplay, [91]
Using the Markers, [66]
Works on Whist, [99]
Widow Binocle, [408]
Widow Cinch, [341]
Yerlash, see [Vint], [493]