The Standard Hoyle: A Complete Guide and Reliable Authority Upon All Games of Chance or Skill Now Played in the United States, Whether of Native or Foreign Introduction (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Author, Unknown

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 026796949X ISBN 13: 9780267969494

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Standard Hoyle: A Complete Guide and Reliable Authority Upon All Games of Chance or Skill Now Played in the United States, Whether of Native or Foreign Introduction

It would be impossible. To print into one volume the thousand and one games which are only occasion'ally played. The larger proportion of such games have but a temporary existence, and played to-day are for gotten to-morrow. The ingenuity of the maker of new games is endless, but his apparent genius generally amounts to nothing more than the changing or blending of one or two well-known games and the produc tion of a worthless hybrid.

The standard hoyle has been supplemented with the leading in and out of door games due to physical skill, and the description of such games, with their rules, adds in no small degree to the general usefulness of the volume.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 026796949X
• ISBN 13: 9780267969494
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 577