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Title: Round Games with Cards
A Practical Treatise on All the Most Popular Games, with Their Different Variations, and Hints for Their Practice

Author: W. H. Peel

Release Date: January 16, 2009 [eBook #27819]

Language: English

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ROUND GAMES

by

BAXTER-WRAY.

ROUND GAMES WITH CARDS.

A Practical Treatise on All the Most Popular Games, with
Their Different Variations, and Hints for Their Practice.

by

BAXTER-WRAY.

1891
1897

CONTENTS.

PAGE
NAP ... 3
LOO ... 16
POKER ... 31
VINGT-UN ... 59
COMMERCE ... 70
SPECULATION ... 77
POPE JOAN ... 80
SPIN ... 87
NEWMARKET ... 89
SNIP-SNAP-SNORUM ... 90
JIG ... 95
CASSINO ... 97
MY BIRD SINGS ... 101
SPOIL FIVE ... 103
LOTO ... 108

[3]

"NAP," OR "NAPOLEON."

The game of Napoleon, or as it is more generally and popularly called
"Nap," was introduced into this country from the United States, it is
believed, about 1865, although it is recorded that the game had previously
been played for high stakes at some of the more notorious gambling clubs.

It is named after the great Napoleon, as the principal player in the game
becomes, for the time being, an Ishmaelite, whose "hand" is against every
man's, and every man's against his, as was the case with the "Grand
Adventurer" in 1804-15 (_see_ Variations)--whence we have the terms
Wellington, Bluecher, etc.

It is an admirable game for three, four, or five persons, and is also
available for two and six, though four is the ideal number, and it is
played with an ordinary pack of