Build.—A card already built up.
False Build.—A build made without any card in hand to redeem it.
Combine.—To play a card which will take two or more cards of a different denomination whose aggregate number of pips or spots exactly equals those of the card played. Thus: a ten will take a seven, two, and ace, the combined spots on those cards being precisely ten.
Last Cards.—Those cards remaining on the board after the last trick is taken, all of which go to the winner of the last trick.
Eldest Hand.—The player sitting at the left hand of the dealer, so called because he is the first to play.
Mis-deal.—An error in giving out the cards, the penalty for which is the forfeiture of the game and all depending upon it.
LAWS OF CASSINO.
1. The pack must consist of fifty-two cards.
2. The dealer deals four cards, one after another, to each player, beginning at the elder hand, after which he deals four cards into the centre of the table, face upwards. He then gives each player four more cards, putting no more, however, into the centre of the table.