The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-03-29
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play L Z fso'uSd tbSsi Re siGdsr N ausI have s9S u hsi
seven cards, As he sul has q card IN HE hand. 4
hsA misdeal or do The points count for the player
The bidder cannot count anything because hi
hand Is foul; but the others II they have III
right number Of cards must DO allowed 70 soor
any points they may have made. II 10 q principle
In all card games that no player shall benent b.
his own error. Suppose the bidders adverSAhei
In this case set him back, be would beneht BY hav
Ing II declared . m iSdsal a. their points would mol
score,
Bridge. 4, T, says; Toward the end Of a hand
A leadss winning card, which be Il AFRAID the dealer,
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face up on AS liable, agrees and throws down
hs cards The dealer now sees that B has revoked
mott
He Is too late. As concession OF the rest Of the
tricks must be taken a. equivalent 10 leading for
the neat tnek and giving it 70 The dealer. The
New York Bridge Club, at 50 West SiXty-seventh
street, has . special law 10 cover this very point
which II added 10 the regular code. This law reads:
When either side claims tho balance and II Is
allowed or when . concession OF balance Is made
ell thirteen tricks shall be deemed TUNED and
quilted"
Hearts, w. r. X. says; In a tournament for
~ PIAssH anu y naa seven games eeee, having
The second prize was then given 10 c, who had s1
games b Insists that he Is entitled 10 the second
Prize.
B is right. A and B we're ued for the choice Of
INST and second prizes. O was not In II. A won
the choice, and could have taken either, leaving
the other to b. To shut b out OF prize altogether
Is putting a penalty on him for winning the greatest
number OF games.
your answer % j. Il. \. last s8 week, the position Of
the Joker seems 20 be absurd. There q no other
game In the world In which any card belongs 70
all by Itself. Why should 500 dlner from all other
gamesi
The charm Of a game Is It's variation from older
and more familiar forms, and n, O.. s. IL wrong In
supposing that this feature OF q cards being at
one time a suit and at another a trump does not
occur In other games. In skat the jacks sometimes
belong To any one Of the four suits; sometimes they
are a suit by themselves, just like the Joker In 800.
In skat the holders OF jacks can trump any Of the
four suits In q grand, because there are practically
ave suits. Just as In 500.
r. b. says: The holder Of the Joker has a small
diamond In a no trlmper. When a diamond Is led
must he follow suit. or can he trump
He must follow suit.
Euchrr. NJ c. D. says: A takes up the trump
and says she will play alone. u played alone
against her, but A got three tricks. A insists that
she Is entitled 70 count four for this, as a lone hand
opposed her.
A lone hand Is a proposition to make a march,
and no one but the maker OF the trump can make
such a proposition. In order TO score four points
the maker OF the trump must make all nve tricks
without any partner. 10 the march Is not made
the lone hand cannot make more than one point.
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two. II II takes two players TO euohre a lone hand
II counts two points. II one player can do II
II counts double. Just as the march counts double.
The only chance ever given TO a single player 10
make a euchre Is when a lone hand Is announced,
because II the maker Of the trump does not play
alone neither adversary can play alone against her.
IL should be observed that II does not matter
whether the euchrlnE side gets three, four or i've
tricks, II is only a euchre.
CrIbbage. II. H.. says: In two hand A starts
with a Jack. j plays a Ave: a pairs IT, b plays
I'VE. What Is BIS total DsEging on the play'
Twenty.one points. Pair, pair royal, double
pair royal, and go.
Phoebe. c. r.. c. says. You ask how a hand
OF four kings and queens, I've a, 10. ], and dix Of
trumps, diamonds. can be counted for more than
40. This way: Trumps, $50; four kings and
queens, 40. plnochle. W, and dix, 10; total, 40.
HOW 10 you Etl - luI luC lOuI hllkb n Quttuhs |
Lay them down In accordance with the rules and
you will nnd that they are worth only go, unless
you make two melds with one card. Same answer
TO r. L. ". and W. +. d. !
A.. V. II. says: Cannot see how, II the 50 kings
and o. queens are acknowledged, II Is possible /
10 get less than 100 points for the four marriages,
when one OF the four Is worth 70.
II is very easy TO look at the cards on the table
and say: There are four marriages, therefore they
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Many players overlook the fact that laying down
all the cards together In three or four hand Is simply
10 save time and is done because all good players
know that II the cards were laid down properly,
one meld at a time, the score would be the same.
Nelds 10 three or four hand cannot be made more
valuable than they are In two hand, and II is i'm.
possible 10 score more In one game than In the
other for exactly the same cards, therefore the test
any meld in three or four hand Is. How would
you meld those cards in two hand'
Poker. c. D. says: In dealing before the draw
4 card is faced and another player shows a card
has been dealt 10 him. Is this a mlsdeal'
No.
D.. +. says: II is stated in Hoyle that the dealer
IS not allowed TO draw nve cards. Is this correct
No. II must be a very Inaccurate Hoyle that
would give such a rule. The dealer is entitled 10
he same privileges as any other player Al the
able.
ID. q. says: Suppose that after the cAfus have
,een properly dealt one OF the players turns all
i've OF those given to him face upward on the table.
s his hand dead. or Is II a misdeAli !
Neither. II be exposes his own hand there Is no
me to blame but himself. No player can make q
by exposing his own cards, and no players
land is dead unless II Is foul.
B. 4. asks: n the dealer accidentally faces a card
n dealing before the draw Is It a misdeal'
No. A player Is obliged TO accept one faced
ard, but II the dealer faces two cards Il is a mis-.
j.. s. W. says: A bets that II a player has only
our cards dealt 10 him be can draw 10 four.
Wrong. II he has picked them up his hand is
ouL.
NJ. p. c. says: our club does not agree with your
lew that four OF a kind and the joker will make
tralght nush. Since the Joker came into the
anne all good players have agreed that no freak"
ana; sufh as I'VE OF .a6 KIM tbio oSu :. Se maze w S1na v
he regular game.
The rules say that a player holding the joker
an call It anything he pleases. II he has four
ems and chooses to call the joker q ten be must
ave nve tens. There 10 no freak" about this.
he only reason that there Is no such thing as nve
I a kind In the regular game is that there are not
We cards 10 make II with. That II Is more dln1cult
, get four Of a kind and the Joker than II ls to get a
iAlght hush Is evident when We consider that 1
are forty straight Pushes In the pack, and !
My thirteen hands OF hve Of a kind. All poker l
ands arc ranked according 10 the improbablnty |
I getting them, and the odds are three tme 40
reat against getting four Of q kind and the Joker /
) they are against getting a straight flush. so |
lat whether the hand ls called nve Of a kind or |
ot It is harder to get and must therefore bs /
mixed as the better hand. II . player holding
mr. NJ a Wind Uaa mot alloUsd 10 beneht nv hold. i