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Hoyle's Rules of Games, 3rd Revised and Updated Edition: The Essential
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Hoyle's Rules of Games, 3rd Revised and Updated Edition: The Essential Guide to Poker and Other Card Games Paperback - 2001

by Albert H. Morehead; Geoffrey Mott-Smith; Philip D. Morehead

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The definitive book on games, from card games to board games, has been fully updated and revised to include rules, strategies, and odds for more than 250 games. Includes a special section on computer games.

Summary

In 1742, Edmond Hoyle published the definitive book on whist, the most popular card game of his day.

More than 250 years later, Hoyle is still the definitive name when it comes to the rules of games, from bridge to backgammon, Scrabble to blackjack. This handy reference guide has now been updated and expanded and includes rules, strategies, and playing odds for more than 250 games.

Readers will learn how to play, hone their strategies, and settle disputes with this newest edition of the classic reference guide.

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Here is the perfect gift for novice and expert game enthusiasts alike. With Hoyle's Rules of Games you'll learn how to play games, sharpen your strategy, and settle disputes with the revised and updated edition of this essential reference guide--now covering over 250 classic and popular games!

Whether you're a casual gamer looking for a reference guide for your next family game night or whether you take the rules a little more seriously, this essential guide to card games, board games, and game strategy is for you. It also makes the perfect companion to board game gifts for children this holiday season: they'll love the game, but they'll love winning even more!

More than 250 years after Edmond Hoyle first published his guide to the game Whist, Hoyle's is still the definitive name when it comes to the rules of the game--whether it's bridge, backgammon, Scrabble(R) or Blackjack. With Hoyle's Rules of Games, all you need to have hours of fun with family and friends is a board game or a deck of cards!

The game player's basic reference, this handy guide has now been updated and expanded and includes rules, strategies, and odds for over 250 games, including such favorites as:

- Scrabble(R)
- Canasta
- Contract Bridge
- Gin Rummy
- Chess
- Backgammon
- Solitaire games: Nestor, Pounce, Pyramid, and Russian Bank
- Poker variations: Anaconda, Blind Tiger, and Hold 'em
- Children's games: Beggar-your-neighbor, Memory, and Slapjack
- Computer games: Minesweeper and Freecell
- ...And more!

First line

There is a large family of games in which the object is to win "high, low, jack and game."

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  • Title Hoyle's Rules of Games, 3rd Revised and Updated Edition: The Essential Guide to Poker and Other Card Games
  • Author Albert H. Morehead; Geoffrey Mott-Smith; Philip D. Morehead
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 3 REV UPD
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Plume Books, New York
  • Publication date 2001-12-01
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Index
  • ISBN 9780452283138 / 0452283132
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.8 in (19.81 x 13.46 x 2.03 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1060
  • Category Games / Gamebooks / Crosswords
  • Library of Congress subjects Card games, Hoyle, Edmond
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002278550
  • Dewey Decimal Code 795.4

About the author

Philip Morehead is Head of Music Staff for Lyric Opera of Chicago. He is the son of the late Albert H. Morehead, lexicographer and games expert, the original co-editor of this book, who was Bridge Editor of the New York Times for over 25 years and the editor of many books on games. He is editor of The New American Webster Handy College Dictionary and The New American Rogets College Thesaurus and is author of The New American International Dictionary of Music. He lives in Chicago with his wife Patricia, oboist and composer.

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