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

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Albert H. Morehead Geoffrey Mott-Smith

Hoyle's Rules of Games, 3rd Revised and Updated Edition

The Essential Guide to Poker and Other Card Games

Albert H. Morehead, Geoffrey Mott-Smith, Philip D. Morehead

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Plume
19 September 2002

Hobbies, quizzes & games; Card games

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

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-

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Scrabble

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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!

By: Albert H. Morehead, Geoffrey Mott-Smith, Philip D. Morehead
Imprint: Plume
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 3rd edition
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 295g
ISBN: 9780452283138
ISBN 10: 0452283132
Pages: 362
Publication Date: 19 September 2002
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

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

On Men’s Health list of 25 THINGS EVERY MAN SHOULD OWN “A volume without which no home is truly complete.”—Slate “For the serious game player.”—The Bradenton Herald (Florida) “The source for the rules of most card games.”—St. Petersburg Times (Florida)