Author: Edmond HoylePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Hoyle's Standard Games, and Bridge Whist, 500, Fan Tan, Solo, Hearts, and Card Tricks
Author: Edmond HoyleHoyle's Standard Games and Bridge Whist, 500, Fan Tan, Solo Hearts and Card Tricks
Author: Edmond HoyleHoyle's Standard Games
Author: Edmond HoylePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Card games
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Hoyle's Standard Games
Author: Hoyle's Standard Games
Author: Edmond HoyleThe Night Riders
Author: Henry Cleveland WoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Manila Romance, Or, Life in the East Indies
Author: William Henry ThomesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Penguin Book of Card Games
Author: David ParlettPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141916109
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
The Penguin Book of Card Games is the authoritative up-to-date compendium, describing an abundance of games to be played both for fun and by serious players. Auctions, trumpless hands, cross-ruffing and lurching: card players have a language all of their own. From games of high skill (Bridge) to games of high chance (Newmarket) to trick-taking (Whist) and banking (Pontoon), David Parlett, seasoned specialist in card games, takes us masterfully through the countless games to choose from. Not content to merely show us games with the conventional fifty-two card pack, Parlett covers many games played with other types of cards - are you brave enough to play with Tarot? With a 'working description' of each game, with the rules, variations and origins of each, as well as an appendix of games invented by the author himself, The Penguin Book of Card Games will delight, entertain and inform both the novice and the seasoned player.
The Oxford Guide to Card Games
Author: David ParlettPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Imported from the Mamluks of Egypt, card games first hit Europe around 1371 and within ten years had spread from Spain and Italy to France and Germany. By 1420, German and Swiss cardmakers were producing packs by the thousands (first by stencil, later by metal engraving) marked with a bewildering array of suits, including hounds, bears, parrots, roses, helmets, banners, and bells. Games proliferated as well, and by 1534, Rabelais could name 35 different card games in Chapter 22 of Gargantua. Today, of course, there are thousands of games, from the universally popular Poker and Contract Bridge, to national manias such as Swiss Jass, German Skat, and French Belote. This is a historical guide to cards in Europe and America. This is not primarily a book of rules or hints on how to play better, but a survey of where the games originated, how they have developed over time, and what their rituals and etiquette tell us about the people who play them.
Foster's Complete Hoyle
Author: Robert Frederick FosterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Card games
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description