The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-07-24
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Auction Pitoh.-A;P. \; says, A hs, ths deal and
EtaSsS, making both one to 70. 4 then claims low and
says he T. out, although B makes high. Jack, game.
In all forms of auction or sell.out games the bid.
der goes out IL he succeeds in making As many a. he
bid, and that number is sufhcient TO win the game,
no matter what the other scores may be.
Obliged 70 take a trick II he knows that by 40 doing
he will give J. q sweepf 2. Can A make = double
AZ with a 4 and .. A takes a deuce from the table
and an AGO from his own hand and makes this
out Satt @, his Z own hSndit Is s al iT Hight. This ! dispS HOsa
which is right
L. II A haa made a build he must take II in when
II comes to his turn, whether It gives d a sweep or
not ?. All the cards used In increasing = build
must DO played from the hand; those on the table
are eligible only for the original build.
criobage:-o. NJ. b, says; Annd y arc playing. 40
IN turned for a starter. and IL IL AS hrst show. He
lays dow q y and three IS, Claiming IL. holes. u
says the hand is worth IA only. Which is riRhtf
A ir right. The two 6s combined with each Of
the IS separately mako three nfteens. Tho three IS
together eombiued with each Of the os separately
make two moro. or 10 points altogether. Then the
pairroyAl of % and the pair of 8s bring the hand up
TO 10.
T. B. asks: How many times round the board in q
game for two players IL they arc playing SiX-card
cribbage, and how many times for hVe-card cribbage1
II the board ia 90 holes long, once up the outside
and then down the inside and into the game hole.
which ia 81 points, is game In either nYe or six card
cribbage.
Euehre.-w. H.. NJ. and others. A is dealing and
B orders A up and gets euchred, so that A makes two
points: on the strength OF which B claims to have won
BIS claim Is simply a bubble. and A wins. II you
bet that a man will not mako "a" dollar in a certain
enterprise. and he makes hfty. you will lose your
bet every time.
Fan-Tan.-B. F. @. says: II the 7 Ia set, must the
0 and the 3 Of that suit be set before the I of another
suit can be laid on the tablet
No. II a player cannot follow to the nrst set with
either an 8 or a o. he must play another 7, II he has
one, or pay a chip into the pool, At least that is the
Eastern custom.
Pinochle.-H. W. asks IL. in a four-handed game,
400.
Neither. As 4 player is allowed TO mako as many
simple and double combinations with his cards As he
can in the four-handed game. he can claim 40 fol
pinochle and 800 more for double pinochle. or 84C
altogether.
H. r. g. asks three questions: !. A claims that
after the cards in the stock are exhausted, b mus
beat every lead made. II he can. b claims that the
Obliged to head the trick IN plain suits. Which i,
To5TSGstf tr, p In PLAYING play nSu fG mrlG @s% s spades tra Gr d Ia
9ueqcs, marriage and pinSehiel 3: In a four
a sa%s, bn RaF6tn s partns Ea@ Gerre sts RR finin Sna 't tsiIa hin TN
they have not enough. Is acknowledges that he wat
T Sa%s On an scd R1SEf or OF B Put ta 4 s'S e{sim him nlt f@ q SLa A. s "a,
is not near l 900 points. Which is right?
1. The second player to each trick. after the stool
is exhausted. must win the trick If he can. and IL h,
has none of the suit led he must trump It II he can
2. 23o is correct. 8. If either player incorrect,
claims the game. his action is binding on his partner
and the other side wins it.
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are scoring by mnltipies Of Ave at the end Of eaci
deal. has % TO 20, and in the middle Of a hand h
equal to 50. This b disputes. Which is correcti
The system of throwing OF fractions is never uset
except at the end of the hand. and in order to go GU
during the play A must make his full 50 points.
s. NJ. says: A bets B that It is not permissible in
twe-handed game TO meld so kings, three 2o'ss on
queens. Is claims that he can do so. Please decide
If three POS and a 40 have been NEEDED ther
must have been four queens on the table, If thes
are all on the table when b wants to score them h
can certainly do so; or If three Of them remain an
b has a duplicate OF the fourth. he can score Q
queens. no matter what he has previously scored ft
marriages.
W. A. I. says; In a two-handed game A melds Is
trnnps, leads the queen, which wins the trick. the
laws down a duplicate queen and claims 30 for II
royal marriage. u claims the score for the marriag
is lost, because the sequence was scored first. Whic
is correct?
b is rrht. Trump sequences and marriages belon
to the same class of melds. and the rule is that
player cannot meld cards which have already bee
used to form higher combinations in the same elias
In this case the king of trumps has been used to for1
n higher combination-the sequence-so it cannt
again be used to form q lower combination in II
same class-a marriage. The new queen has nothir
to do with IL.
A-B says: In a game OF 100 points A wants 2. an
melds a marriage, claiming out y says he must wi
q trick before he can get out. Which is rightr
II A had already won a trick before NEEDING 2
was out; but if he NEEDED before he won a trick /
lie not out. Many persons confuse the rule for Il
two and the four handed game. In two-handed it
necessary to take n trick before every meld. but Il
meld then scores Immediately. In the four-hand,
game all the melds are made before playing. so it
OF course. impossible to take a trick hrst; but n
player must win a trick after NEEDING in order
score his melds,
W. A. p. says: In q three-handed game. diamond
trnmps, A led the club ace, b discarded a heart,
followed suit. A led another club, which B trumpe,
for the revoko2
Upon discovering that B could have trumped Il
hrst trick, A and G have the right to go back TO Il
nrst lead. each player taking back the cards he h
played and compelling B to trump the club. B thu
loses all his score for cards on that deal as q pc
atty.
Poker.-7A;w W. says; Six men are playing and o,
opens n Jack pot with q pair OF jacks. Two Of Il
others stay and draw cards. After drawing, Il
opener finds that he has discarded one OF his pair
accident; A bets that the better Of the two renal
ing hands takes the pool, no matter what they ar
B bets that the pot must be declared of in order
give the three other men q chance. as they had pr
viously fattened 1t. Who Is rightf Z
, A is right.
r, +, A. SAYS: Four men are playing and A bin
, one chip. b straddles by putting mp two. He
1 many must C pay to draw cardsl d says he mu
, double the mum her put in by A and b collectively.
six. A says. double the last blind, or four onl
Which is rightf
1t always costs twice the amount of the blind
draw cards. and tho amount of the blind is alwa
the amount put up by the last player who pu
money in the pool before he sees his hand. In II
, case A made the blind one chip. B doubled It. nus
3 ing 1t two 1t therefore costs twice two. or four,
o draw cards.
NJ. II. asks; II the ante Ia 10 cents and the lin
25, can the first man TO say make II 90 cents 10 DIR
cards2
: Not unless no has straddled the blind In the a.
= place. or some one else has done so. II the ante
. 10 cents he can raise 1t tho limit, making II IS Gel
altogether TO draw cards.