According to Hoyle The Up-to-Date Edition of the World-Famous Book on Rules of Games

by FREY, RICHARD L.

• ISBN13: 9780449211120
• ISBN10: 0449211126
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1985-12-12
• Publisher: Fawcett

Summary

"A must for anyone who wants to play a game and play it correctly." Charles H. Goren Whether you play card games, dice games, parlor games, word games, chess, checker, backgammon, or solitaire games, here is a comprehensive, up-to-date book with the complete rules of your favorite games of skill and chance. ACCORDING TO HOYLE gives not only the rules but expert advice on winning, too.

Author Biography

Richard L. Frey was the president of the International Bridge Press Association for nearly a dozen years. His articles on many nonbridge subjects have appeared in leading magazines. His daily newspaper articles on bridge appeared nonstop for a record thirty-five years. When the rank of Life Master was created, his name was one of the first chosen. Mr. Frey continues to be the most respected dean of bridge writers. He died in 1988.

Table of Contents

Accordion	191
Aces	57	(207)
Acey Deucey	264
All Fives	223
All Fours	59	(165)
All Threes	224
Auction Euchre	34	(10)
Auction 45's	44	(110)
Auction Partnership Pinochle	154
Auction Pinochle	146
Auction Pitch	61	(128)
Auld Lang Syne	189	(91)
Authors	280
Baccarat	214	(41)
Backgammon	255	(13)
Bank Craps	268
Baseball	21	(261)
Beggar-your-neighbor	282
Belle Lucie	188
Belotte	166	(58)
Bergen	224
Bet or Drop	10	(151)
Bezique	161	(34)
Big Forty	195	(75)
Bird Cage	270
Black Jack	204
Black Lady	50	(166)
Blackout	216
Blind and Straddle	11	(1)
Blind Opening	11	(1)
Blind Tiger	11	(213)
Block Game	224	(2)
Board Games	226
Bolivia	98
Boodle	52	(126)
Booray or Boure	178
Brazilian Canasta	99
Butcher Boy	21	(174)
Calculation	195
Canasta	90	(103)
Canfield	193	(83)
Card Games For Children	276
Casino	180	(73)
Categories or Guggenheim	253	(1)
Charades	254
Checkers	244
Check Pinochle	160	(55)
Chemin-de-fer	215	(20)
Chess	235
Chicago (Bridge)	139
Chicago (Michigan)	52	(46)
Chile	98	(1)
Chilean Canasta	98	(66)
Chinese Bezique	164	(97)
Shouette	261	(9)
Chuck-a-luck	270
Cinch	64
Cincinnati	20	(146)
Clab	166	(1)
Clabber	166	(1)
Clob	166	(30)
Clock	196
Cold Hands	22	(262)
Concentration	284
Contract Bridge	110	(4)
Contract Bridge Laws	114	(10)
Contract Bridge Strategy	124	(11)
Contract Bridge Variations	135
Contract Rummy	79	(111)
Corner Card	190	(10)
Crapette	200	(66)
Craps	266
Crazy Eights	56	(1)
Crazy Jacks	56	(1)
Crazy Sevens	57	(8)
Cribbage	65	(133)
Cribbage Solitaire (Domino)	198	(1)
Cribbage Solitaire (Square)	198
Criss-Cross	20	(80)
Cuban Canasta	100	(37)
Cutthroat Bridge	137
Cutthroat Contract	135
Cutthroat Euchre	33
Dealer's Choice	19	(228)
Devil and the Tailors, The	247	(19)
Dice Games	266
Dominoes	221
Domino Hearts	49	(15)
Don Pedro	64
Double-Barrelled Shotgun	21	(15)
Double Hasenpfeffer	36	(155)
Double Jump	191	(1)
Double Klondie	192
Double-Pack Pinochle	157
Down-the-River	15	(229)
Draughts	244
Draw Casino	185
Draw Poker	7	(126)
Duplicate Bridge	133
Eight-card Stud	15	(41)
Eights	56
Euchre	30	(25)
Fan Tan	55	(157)
Faro	212
Fifteens	189
Firehouse Pinochle	159
Five Hundred	37	(4)
Five Hundred for 5 or 6	41	(47)
Five-Hundred Rum	88	(1)
Five-Hundred Rum Variations	89
Five or Nine	56
Flip	20	(168)
Fortress	188
Forty-five	44	(1)
Forty-fives, Auction	44	(151)
Forty Thieves	195
Four-deal Bridge (Chicago)	139	(133)
Four-five-six	272
Four-hand Cribbage	69
Four-hand Five Hundred	41	(149)
Four Seasons	190	(57)
Fox and Geese	247
Freezeout	22	(168)
Gaps	190
Garbage	19	(62)
Gin Rummy	81	(4)
Gin Rummy for 3, 4, 5, and more	85	(162)
Giveaway Checkers	247	(34)
Go Fish	281
Golf	196
Goulash (Pinochle)	142
Goulashes (Bridge)	135
Hasenpfeffer	34	(236)
Hazard	270
Hearts	46
High-card Pool	28	(31)
High-Low-Jack	59
High-low Poker	18	(1)
High-low Seven-card Stud	18	(1)
High-low Stud	18	(66)
Hollywood Gin	84	(54)
Honeymoon Bridge	138
Hurricane	21	(262)
I Doubt It	283
Italian Canasta	99
Jackpots	7	(93)
Joker Canasta	100
Joker Hearts	48	(118)
Kalaber	166	(1)
Kalabrias	166
Kaluki	74	(92)
Klab	166	(1)
Klaberjass	166	(1)
Klob	166	(25)
Klondike	191	(1)
Klondike, Double	192
Knock Rummy	86	(156)
Kriegspiel	242	(32)
Liar Dice	274
Losing Game, The	247
Lowball	17	(1)
Low Poker	17	(209)
Mah Jongg	226	(6)
Modern Game	232
Matador	224	(60)
Memory	284
Mexican Stud	20	(32)
Michigan	52	(196)
Mill, The	248
Muggins	223
Multiple Golf	197
Napoleon at St. Helena	195
Newmarket	52	(225)
Ninety-nine	277
Oh Hell	216	(1)
Oh Pshaw	216
Oklahoma Gin	85	(194)
Old Maid	279
Old Sledge	59
Omnibus Hearts	50	(25)
Panguingue	75
Parliament	55	(197)
Parlor Games	252
Partnership Auction Pinochle	154	(2)
Partnership Auction Pinochle with a Widow	156	(28)
Partnership Casino	184
Partnership Hearts	49
Pass-out	10	(242)
Password	252
Patience	186
Pedro	63	(1)
Pedro Sancho	63	(221)
Pelmanism	284
Persian Rummy	89	(191)
Pig	280
Pinchole	142
Piquet	103
Pitch	59
Play or Pay	56
Poker	1	(271)
Poker Dice	272
Poker Probabilities	23	(174)
Poker Solitaire	197	(1)
Poker Squares	198
Progressive Jackpots	10	(177)
Pyramid	187
Railroad Euchre	33	(142)
Rauber Skat	175
Red Dog	28	(73)
Rouge et Noir	101	(149)
Roulette	250
Royal Casino	184
Round-the-Corner Gin	85	(78)
Rubicon Bezique	163
Rummy	71	(129)
Russian Bank	200
Samba	97
Saratoga	52	(9)
Setback	61
Seven-card Stud	15	(85)
Sevens	100
Seven-toed Pete	15	(44)
Seven-Up	59
Shotgun	20
Six-card Stud	15	(141)
Six-hand Partnership Pinochle	156	(8)
Six-pack Bezique	164	(5)
Skat	169	(107)
Slapjack	276
Snake	265
Sniff	223
Snip Snap Snorem	54	(132)
Solitaire	186
Spade Casino	184	(10)
Spider	194	(24)
Spite & Malice	218
Spit in the Ocean	19	(22)
Spoil Five	41	(241)
Stealing Bundles	282
Stops	52	(137)
Storehouse	189
Straight Draw Poker	10	(36)
Straight Hearts	46
Stud Poker	13	(200)
Stuss	213
Swedish Rummy	56	(14)
Thirty-one	70
Three-card Monte	21	(1)
Three-card Poker	21	(116)
Three-hand Bridge	137	(47)
Three-hand Casino	184
Three-hand Cribbage	69
Three-hand Euchre	33	(112)
Three-hand Pinochle	145	(80)
Tiddly-Wink	225
Trente-et-quarnate	101	(154)
Trictrac	255
Twenty-one	204
Two-card Poker	21	(117)
Two-hand Bridge	138
Two-hand Canasta	97
Two-hand Euchre	33	(7)
Two-hand Five Hundred	40	(9)
Two-hand Hearts	49	(93)
Two-hand Pinochle	142	(137)
Two-hand Spades	279
Two Pots to Win	21	(77)
Uruguay	98	(92)
Vanishing Cross	190	(95)
War	285
Whiskey Poker	12	(147)
Wipe-Off	159	(93)
Word Squares	252	(21)
Yacht	273