American whist illustrated by P

Author:P[ettes], G[eorge] W[illiam] [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Whist. [from old catalog]
Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company
Published: 1890-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

thousands take part in the game. Complications are constantly presented Few of all the players see the end from the beg^ning. All are ready to give advice and assert opinionik The contestants are many. The statesmen are are few.

American whist stands at the head of all games with cards, because, in the practice of American leads and the newly invented order of suit-play, each card, as it falls from the player's hand, conveys information. With his own intelligence he endows it, and it accurately fulfills its mission. This statement will have a strange sound for the man uneducated in the game who flatters himself he can play whist, while he cannot read the language that is spoken by any of the cards as they fall upon the table of the club. But it will be understood by the lover and player of the true game, whose interest centres upon the fact.^

1 ** Do you play whist, sir ?" inquired an individual of most respectable appearance, who, cards in hand, approached a gentleman enjoying his cigar at the rear of the smoking-car. •* Certainly," was the reply. " All right. Will you^foin the table ? We want one more.** " Do you all play a good game?" asked the gentleman. "Oh, yes; they're all first-rate. We always play on the train, sometimes all the way to New York." " I would enjoy a good game," said the gentleman, •* but allow me to ask, as there is a difference of opinion upon these matters, do you play the call and echo, and hold the twelfth and thirteenth for a purpose ? " " The what ?" asked the puzzled applicant '* Do you sometimes finesse ace.

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There are two methods, the English and American. The original plan of play for ten points made by tricks and honours has been superseded by these two : English or short whist being played for five points, honours counting, rubber points making; and American whist played for seven points, or all that can be made as the game, honours not counting, but tricks alone.

There are variations and imitations of these, but without authority. A game of five points, honours not counted, is played, and there are several games in each of which some fanciful change is made, such as playing always with the same suit for trumps ; or of cutting the trump from a pack at rest; or of putting back into the playing pack the card cut; or of counting the tricks only that are in excess of those made by opponents ; or of playing a certain time for the greatest number of points, or of playing for a certain number of points without regard to time, in place of pla)dng a specified number of rubbers, and giving credit to each party for all that is made. All these plans obey such rules as are agreeable to the players who disregard other rules, and introduce new rules or forms of play

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