=_ If a player looks at one of his adversary’s cards in the stock before or during the draw, he can count nothing that hand. If he looks at a card left in the talon after the draw, which he is not entitled to see, his adversary may call a suit from him as many times as he has seen cards. If a card of the talon is accidentally exposed, the player to whom it would naturally belong may demand a fresh deal. _=OBJECTS OF THE GAME.=_ In order to understand the principles that guide players in discarding, the objects of the game must first be explained. There are three classes of counting combinations at Piquet, and the player that holds the better of each class, scores it. These combinations are: Point; Sequence; Fours and Triplets. _=The Point=_ is the suit having the greatest pip value, reckoning the Ace as 11, court cards as 10 each, and the 10 9 8 7 at their face value. If one player’s best suit contains five cards, worth 48 points, and his adversary has a suit worth 51, the latter would be the only one to count, and it would be called the point for that deal. The value of the point is the number of cards that go to make it.
Wolstanton Miss Keary. { Moor s _Suffolk Words_, Forby s SUFFOLK { _Vocabulary_, Lady C. Gurdon s { _Suffolk County Folk-lore_. SURREY-- Barnes Mrs. G. L. Gomme. Clapham Miss F. D. Richardson.
23, 27, 1869; _Once a Week_, Feb. 13, Mar. 20, 1869; _Daily News_, Feb. 10, 1869; _Westminster Papers_, Jan., 1869. THREE-HANDED BINOCLE. When three persons play, the entire pack is dealt out, giving sixteen cards to each player, four at a time, and turning up the last for the trump. There is no stock. Each plays for himself, and must keep his own score. A triangular cribbage board is very useful for this purpose.
Another fallacy in connection with the maturity of the chances is shown in betting against two successive events, both improbable, one of which has happened. The odds against drawing two aces in succession from a pack of 52 cards are 220 to 1; but after an ace has been drawn the odds against the second card being an ace also are only 16 to 1, although some persons would be mad enough to bet 1000 to 1 against it, on the principle that the first draw was a great piece of luck and the second ace was practically impossible. While the four aces were in the pack the probability of drawing one was 4/52. One ace having been drawn, 3 remain in 51 cards, so the probability of getting the second is 3/51, or 1/17. Before a card was drawn, the probability of getting two aces in succession was the product of these fractions; 1/13 × 1/17 = 1/221. On the same principle the odds against two players cutting cards that are a tie, such as two Fours, are not 220 to 1, unless it is specified that the first card shall be a Four. The first player having cut, the odds against the second cutting a card of equal value are only 16 to 1. _=Dice.=_ In calculating the probabilities of throws with two or more dice, we must multiply together the total number of throws possible with each die separately, and then find the number of throws that will give the result required. Suppose two dice are used.
If at any later stage of the hand, a player finds himself with an established suit and a card of re-entry, he should lead trumps if he has four. For instance: The player with the last example should lead trumps if the first round of Clubs either forced the Ace out of his way, or found it with his partner. _=Rules for Leading Plain Suits.=_ It is safest for the beginner to select his longest suit for the original lead; unless he has a four-card suit which is much stronger. Length and high cards, the two elements of strength, are often very nearly balanced. In the following examples the player should begin with the longest suit:-- ♡ A 4 3; ♣ J 10 9 8 3; ♢ A K Q; ♠ K 2. ♡ K 10 8 3; ♣ 4 2; ♢ K Q 10 8 2; ♠ A Q. In the following the four-card suit should be selected:-- ♡ J 3; ♣ 6 5 4 3 2; ♢ J 10 5 3; ♠ Q 8. ♡ Q 4 2; ♣ 7; ♢ 10 6 4 3 2; ♠ A K Q 10. The principle which should guide in the selection of a plain suit for the original lead is, that if there are a number of small cards in one suit, and a few high cards in another, by leading the long suit first, the higher cards in it are forced out of the way, and the high cards in the shorter suit will then bring the holder of the established small cards into the lead again.
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A duck and a drake And a penny white cake, And a skew ball. --Peacock s _Manley and Corringham Glossary_. Moor (_Suffolk Words and Phrases_) gives the names for the number of times the stone emerges, as (1) a duck; (2) a duck an a drake; if thrice, a duck an a drake an a fi epenny cake; four times is a duck an a drake an a fi epenny cake, an a penny to pah the baker. If more than four, a duck, a duck an a drake, &c., are added. These distinctions are iterated quickly to correspond in time as nearly as may be with the dips of the stone. A flattish stone is evidently the best for this sport. (_b_) This game is also given by Mr. Addy in his _Sheffield Glossary_, and by Holland (_Cheshire Glossary_), Brogden (_Provincial Words, Lincolnshire_), Lowsley (_Berkshire Glossary_), Nares _Glossary_, and Baker s _Northants Glossary_. Miss Courtenay gives Scutter and Tic Tac Mollard as Cornish names for the game (_West Cornwall Glossary_).
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When the Mother is chasing the girl she keeps asking, Where s my share of the silver penny? to which the girl replies, You may have the nut-shells. In the Cornish version, when the Mother has caught one of the children, she beats her and puts her hands round the child s throat as if she were going to hang her. (_c_) Miss Courtney, in _Folk-lore Journal_, v. 55, says: I thought this game was a thing of the past, but I came across some children playing it in the streets of Penzance in 1883. It belongs to the cumulative group of games, and is similar in this respect to Milking Pails, Mother, Mother, the Pot boils over, &c. There seems to be no other object in the game as now played except the pleasures of teasing and showing defiance to a mother s commands, and trying to escape the consequences of disobedience by flight, in order that the mother may chase them. The idea may be that, if she is out of breath, she cannot chastise so much. Mr. Newell (_Games_, p. 172) gives versions of a similar game.
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