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Edmond Hoyle?s first published work was probably A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist, which appeared in 1742, when its author was a ripe 70. The booklet became an instantaneous success. Hoyle had previously acquired a considerable reputation as an instructor of card games, with which polite British society was absolutely obsessed. Before he died at 97, Hoyle augmented his Whist prescriptions with advice about Chess, Backgammon, Quadrille and Piquet. On each subject, his published word exerted the force of law. It still does. To settle arguments, one opens any volume that bears Hoyle?s name, finds the desired rule and is forthwith entitled to announce the verdict with absolute authority: ?According to Hoyle . . .?
In our own time, experts as substantial as Ely Culbertson (Culbertson?s Hoyle) and Albert H. Morehead (The New Complete Hoyle) have elected to ride the old master?s coattails when coining titles for their own compendious texts. The no less consequential John Scarne deplores this. Pointing out that modern manuals contain none of Hoyle?s writings and deal mainly with games unknown in Hoyle?s day, he has suggested that ?the practice of giving titles such as The Revised Hoyle, The Up-to-Date Hoyle and even Poker According to Hoyle seems to me comparable to titling an engineering book Fulton on Diesel Engines, or one on atomic energy The Revised Aristotle.?
One might as well complain that Noah Webster gets a by-line on dictionaries that he did not compile, or that Peter Mark Roget continues with top billing on many a modern thesaurus, although dead for more than a century. Like Webster and Roget, Hoyle is a special case, a godlike figure. Hardly anyone concedes that he is gone. The general assumption is that he issues periodic revisions of his rules and, indeed, is not only available for consultation but perfectly capable of walking through the door and smiting down anyone who bids out of turn.
Accordingly, this book is a Hoyle. Expanding the tradition of most of its predecessors, it attempts to instruct the reader in the play of any game that (a) uses cards, counters or dice and (b) is genuinely popular in any substantial area of the Western world. Included are numerous games that have become obsolete?and even are forgotten?in some regions, yet continue to command loyalty elsewhere. Our guiding principle is that there is no such thing as a bad yet popular game. Any pastime interesting enough to divert large numbers of human adults is worth looking into. If on some rainy afternoon the reader riffles through these pages and discovers the fascinations of KIab or Pitch, it will have all been worthwhile. With the same thought in mind, we have included an unusually extensive section dealing with games of Solitaire. And we have not neglected certain so-called children?s games that not only deserve adult attention but get it in many parts of the world.
Card games are the most numerous of the recreations to be explored here, but are by no means the whole story. We also cover the gamut of board and table games, with new and unprecedented emphasis on the amazing games of simulation and strategy to which computers have given rise. As we shall show, some of the commercially developed sports and war and investment games are as interesting as any board or card games in history. They already enjoy rather wide vogue, as the prosperity of manufacturers attests, but they have never been dealt with by Hoyle before. Which makes this book a great leap forward for them and the old man alike. There is more to the book than that. Betting propositions for bar and club car occupy a section of their own. And gambling is also covered thoroughly. In short, if you are curious about a sedentary game, or some aspect of such a game, the chances are enormous that you will find answers here. Moreover, you will usually find enough detail to help you play that game at a reasonably competent level.
Obviously, a work of this kind cannot substitute for the specialized texts that form the literature of great games like Bridge, Chess, Poker and Backgammon. Rather than make so vain an attempt, we shall refer our reader to the best books in those well-tilled fields, contenting ourselves with just enough procedural and tactical advice to hold Mr. Hoyle?s franchise. Thanks to him, then, for getting us off to such a splendid start more than two hundred years ago. Thanks also to a contemporary figure, my editor, Norman Monath. Himself a world expert in the development, analysis and teaching of games, he has managed this project with great patience and thoughtfulness. Henry Kuck helped mightily with the research, and Patricia Miller, an extraordinarily discerning copy editor, rescued me from numerous errors. Thanks to them both.
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