he dealer only has
the same chances as the others, and such a penalty seems unjust.

_EXTENDED COMMERCE_.

This is only applicable to the modern mode of playing the game, which in
this variation is extended until all the players are satisfied, that is,
they may keep on trading, either for ready money or by barter, until they
all receive cards sufficiently good to stand upon. The great objection
to this variation is that it makes the game wearisome for those players
who are soon enabled to stand, as they have to wait while the others are
being satisfied.

_CONTINUOUS DEALING_.

Another method of playing the modern game is to allow the same dealer to
remain in until one of the players secures a Tricon, Sequence, or Flush,
when the deal passes to the next player, on the left-hand side. This
variation is based on the same principle as governs the game of Vingt-un.

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SPECULATION.

This is a round game which for very many years has been one of the most
popular of its class. It requires little skill in its conduct, being
essentially a game of chance. The players do not look at their hands,
and therefore cannot in any way influence their possibilities of success
with the three cards dealt them. The only element of skill associated
is in connection with the speculations which form part of the play,
and which may be carried on by each of the players during its progress.

The ordinary packs of fifty-two or thirty-two cards may be used, and the
number of players who may take part in the game is practically unlimited
within the range of the pack; but it will be found that not more than
ten players are desirable with the fifty-two card pack, and not more than
six with the thirty-two card one, as otherwise too great a proportion
of the pack is brought into use each deal, and there is not much scope
for speculation as to what remains in the undealt portion of the pack.

In playing the game the ace is reckoned the highest card, then follow king,
queen, knave, ten, etc., down to two.

The first dealer is decided in the manner explained in connection with
"Nap" (see page 9), and he has to pay two coins or counters into the pool,
each of the other players contributing one. Three cards are then dealt
to each player, one at a time, and going round from left to right. The
top card remaining on the pack is turned up for trump, but [78] before
turning it the dealer may sell it to any other of the players. I