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    Dominoes and Solitaire - How to Improve Your Game
    Dominoes and Solitaire - How to Improve Your Game
    Dominoes and Solitaire - How to Improve Your Game
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    Dominoes and Solitaire - How to Improve Your Game

    By Berkeley

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    Originally published in London 1890. This interesting little book gives descriptions and advice on fourteen different variations of the game of Dominoes and a chapter on Solitaire. Skill at dominoes is founded on accurate calculation, ready observation, and rapid deduction. The author deals with these, and the various rules, in a professional but straight forward manner. The book is well illustrated with explanatory line drawings.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateSep 6, 2016
    ISBN9781473350854
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      Dominoes and Solitaire - How to Improve Your Game - Berkeley

      DESCRIPTION OF THE GAME.

      Dominoes is played by two or more persons (according o the variation chosen) with twenty-eight pieces—technically styled cards—of oblong shape, composed of ivory or bone, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a black line across the middle into two equal squares, each square being indented with spots or left blank, as shown in the diagram on page 6.

      There are also domino sets, published in neat little boxes, made of cardboard. These, however, are not so handy as the old-fashioned dominoes, although in one variety, namely Domino loo, they are a great convenience.

      The pieces, twenty-eight in number, are—double-blank; one-blank, double-one; two-blank, two-one, double-two; three-blank, three-one, three-two, double-three; four-blank, four-one, four-two, four-three, double-four; five-blank, five-one, five-two, five-three, five-four, double-five; six-blank, six-one, six-two, six-three, six-four, six-five, and double-six. They will all be found in the diagram on page 6.

      Sometimes sets ranging up to double-nines and double-twelves respectively are used, but the pack shown in the diagram is the one generally played with, especially in the games meant for two players, the higher sets being only used in the round games.

      Although many of the hints suggested in the following pages will apply to games played with the higher sets, yet all the games which are treated at any length are played with twenty-eight cards, the highest of which is the double-six.

      It may not be out of place to mention at once that the double-twelve set contains ninety-one dominoes, and their aggregate number of pips is 1,092, i.e.—they average twelve pips on each.

      Double-nine set contains fifty-five dominoes, and their aggregate number of pips is 495, and average nine pips each.

      These details are of little practical value in the higher sets, as a player will have to be guided by his cards whether it is advisable to block the game or leave it open.

      If a player holds a light hand, and an equal or less number of dominoes than his opponent or opponents, he should block, and not otherwise. If his cards average five pr less, he has a light hand; and if six or more, he has a heavy hand.

      In the double-six set, this point, on the other hand, is one of considerable importance, at least to those who desire to play the game on scientific principles.

      It will be seen by the above diagram that the double-six set consists of twenty-eight dominoes, whose aggregate number of pips is 168, consequently each domino averages six.

      Again, each suit contains seven dominoes, as will be evident in the case of the six and blank suits; and as regards the others, suppose you want to see the two suit, you will have to look along the third horizontal column, and on coming to the end of it you carry your eye down the perpendicular column, which joins the end of the third horizontal column.

      One of the chief difficulties in estimating quickly the number of pips already played is that the suits intermingle.

      The six suit contains sixty-three pips.

      The five suit contains fifty-six pips.

      The four suit contains forty-nine pips.

      The three suit contains forty-two pips.

      The two suit contains thirty-five pips.

      The one suit contains twenty-eight pips.

      The blank suit contains twenty-one pips.

      When we treat of the tactics of the Draw game, this subject will be gone into more in detail (page 28).

      Having now described the implements of warfare, we will proceed at once to describe how they are to be used.

      The cards should first of all be turned with their faces downwards, and shuffled with a slight circular motion of the hands. Then the question as to who is entitled to the lead should be determined.

      There are various ways of doing this in vogue among domino players.

      Drawing for the Lead.

      The first and simplest method is that each player draws a card from the pack after it has been well shuffled, and he who draws the lowest double wins the lead; in default of a double being drawn, the holder of the card bearing the least number of pips wins the down. If there are more than two players, this draw will also decide seats and the sequence of the lead in the remaining hands of that game. The person who draws the second lowest card sits to the leader’s left hand, and has

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