[3] For the accepted Laws of All-Fours, see The Book of Card and Table Games (Routledge).
[4] Pronounced Báckărah.
[5] The number is not absolute, sometimes four packs, sometimes two only, being used; but three is the more usual number.
[6] For the Laws of Baccarat Banque, and some suggestions for play, see The Book of Card and Table Games.
[7] Some players do not score brisques till the close of the hand. The better rule, however, it to score them when the trick is won.
[8] In some circles, when the Whist tricks are reached, the ten reverts to its Whist rank, i.e. below the knave, but the practice is not recommended.
[9] Carte blanche is scored at the outset of the game, and before the player has drawn a card. He must prove his title by exhibiting his nine cards, one after another (as rapidly as he pleases), face upwards on the table. Should the first card he draws not be an honour, he may show the card, and again score carte blanche, and so on, as often as this may happen; but carte blanche cannot be scored after the player has once held a court card.
[10] The first marriage scored is necessarily in trumps.
[11] It will be observed that this rule is directly contrary to that prevailing at ordinary Bézique.
[12] Roughly, the value of all the brisques in the four packs. There are actually 32, which at ten each would be 320; but as the odd 20 are not reckoned, this reduces the value to 300.