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W. H. Peel. Round Games with Cards

Round Games with Cards

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BY. BAXTER-WRAY

ROUND GAMES

ROUND GAMES

WITH CARDS

BY. BAXTER-WRAY

“NAP,” OR “NAPOLEON.”

LOO

POKER

VINGT-UN

COMMERCE

SPECULATION

POPE JOAN

SPIN

NEWMARKET

SNIP-SNAP-SNORUM

JIG

CASSINO

MY BIRD SINGS

SPOIL-FIVE

LOTO

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W. H. Peel

A Practical Treatise on All the Most Popular Games, with Their Different Variations, and Hints for Their Practice

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MISERY OR MISÉRE.

This is the most common variation, and is the antithesis of Napoleon, inasmuch as the caller must not make a single trick. The caller leads off in the ordinary way—­the suit led being trumps, as usual, unless it is agreed, as is sometimes done, that there shall be no trumps in this variation. The caller of misére must always follow suit, if he can, but is not obliged to trump if he has none of the suit led. He must, however, play the cards so as to avoid taking a trick. Should he be compelled to win one of the tricks, or should his original lead remain unheaded by any of the other players, then he fails in his declaration, and has to pay, but if he avoids making a trick, the other players have to pay him. The usual stake for “misery,” either for winner or loser, is three; but any player declaring he can make three tricks takes precedence, and plays accordingly.

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