Cards and Card Tricks, Containing a Brief History of Playing Cards

Full Instructions with Illustrated Hands, for Playing Nearly all Known Games of Chance or Skill; And Directions for Performing a Number of Amusing Tricks

H. E. Heather

• Publisher: White Press
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN:
  9781473343320
• Print ISBN:
  9781473336155

This volume contains full instructions for playing a vast array of different card games ranging from Poker to Irish Loo, as well as chapters on card tricks, the history of playing cards, 'cartomancy', and more. "Cards and Card Tricks" will appeal to seasoned player and novice alike, and it would make for a fantastic addition to any collection. Contents include: "Whist", "Loo", "Irish Loo", "Vingt-Et-Un", "Faro or Pharao", "Tontine", "Lansquenet", "Forty-Five-Maw-Five-Cards", "Twenty-Five", "Blind Hookey-Banker", "Albert Smith", "Poker-Draw", "Newmarket", "Quadrille", "Bostone", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in a modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on card tricks.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Card Manipulation
• Contents
• Cards and Card Tricks.
• Whist.
• Loo.
• Irish Loo.
• Vingt-et-un.
• Rouge et Noir—Trente-et-Un.
• Faro or Pharao.
• Tontine.
• Lansquenet.
• Forty-five—Maw—Five-cards.
• Twenty-five.
• Bund Hookey—Banker.
• Albert Smith.
• Poker—Draw.
• Newmarket.
• Quadrille.
• Boston.
• Reversis.
• Calabrasella.
• Cribbage.
• Bézique
• Fildinski, Polish Bézique, Open Bézique.
• Zetema.
• Piquet.
• Ecarté.
• Euchre.
• Cassino.
• All Fours.
• Don Pedro—All Fives.
• Quinze.
• Veto.
• Napoleon.
• Catch the Ten.
• Brag.
• Bluff.
• Put.
• Sift Smoke.
• Pope Joan.
• Matrimony.
• Chancery.
• Speculation.
• Snip-Snap-Snor’em.
• Commerce.
• My Ship Sails—My Bird Sings.
• Spin.
• Beggar my Neighbour—Beat my Neighbour out of Doors.
• Old Maid—Old Bachelor—Donkey, Etc.
• Scratch.
• Snap.
• Muggins.
• Doctor Busby.
• The British Constitution.
• L’Horloge.
• English Patience.
• French Patience.
• Spanish Patience.
• La Belle Lucie.
• The House in the Wood.
• Russian Patience.
• Persian Patience.
• Cartomancy.
• Card Tricks.
• Index.