Foster's Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of Games

Foster's Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of Games - Including all indoor games played to-day. With suggestions for good play, illustrative hands, and all official laws to date

The word Hoyle has gradually come to stand as an abbreviation for an Encyclopedia of Indoor Games. The common expression, played according to Hoyle, usually means correctly played, or played according to the standard authorities. The original Edmund Hoyle wrote on very few games, but his work was the first attempt to put together the rules for the most popular indoor games in one volume. Although Hoyle died more than a hundred years ago, his work has been constantly added to as new games came into vogue, which has led many to believe that he is the authority for games that he never heard of, such as pinochle and poker. Persons who have never given the subject much attention may be surprised to learn how little authority there is for the rules governing the majority of our popular games. If we except the table games, such as chess, checkers, billiards, backgammon and ten pins, and such card games as whist, bridge, auction, and skat, all of which are regulated by well-defined codes of laws, agreed upon by associations of prominent clubs, to govern championship contests, etc., we have very few games left which are not played in different ways in various localities. This is undoubtedly because such games are learnt at the card table and not from books. A person who is shown a new game cannot remember all its details, some of which may not have been explained to him even. If he tries to teach it to others while his knowledge is in this imperfect state, he will naturally invent rules of his own to cover the points he has forgotten, or has never learnt, usually borrowing ideas from games with which he is more familiar. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 53881
Author: Foster, R. F. (Robert Frederick)
Release Date: Jan 3, 2017
Format: eBook
Language: English