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List Of Games Prohibited In Austria-Hungary
In 1904, the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Justice ('' k. u. k. Justizministerium'') published the following list of games prohibited in Austria-Hungary. It was expanded by the state of Austria in 1933, was exemplary in Austria for many years and now represents a culturally and historically interesting list of the sort of gambling that was popular at that time. It is particularly noteworthy that there are also some bowling and billiard games on this list, which today are regarded more as games of skill. List of prohibited games (1904) On 30 June 1904 a law was passed by the Ministry of Justice of the Empire of Austria-Hungary which designated the following games as "prohibited games": # Pharao # Paschen (dice game) # Einundzwanzig (Twenty-One) and the similar Halbzwölf # Zwicken (also Labet, Tippen, Pochen) and its variant, Kleinpréférence # Angehen (also called Frische Vier) # Bakkarat (Makao) # Tartel with open Terzen # Kartentombola (also Grüne Wiese) # Stoß ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire,, the Dual Monarchy, or Austria, was a constitutional monarchy and great power in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. It was formed with the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 in the aftermath of the Austro-Prussian War and was dissolved shortly after its defeat in the First World War. Austria-Hungary was ruled by the House of Habsburg and constituted the last phase in the constitutional evolution of the Habsburg monarchy. It was a multinational state and one of Europe's major powers at the time. Austria-Hungary was geographically the second-largest country in Europe after the Russian Empire, at and the third-most populous (after Russia and the German Empire). The Empire built up the fourth-largest machine building industry in the world, after the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom. Austria-Hungary also became the world's third-largest manufacturer and exporter of electric home appliances, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macao (card Game)
Macao is an old, European gambling card game played with French playing cards that is related to Baccarat. It was first mentioned in 1774, and may have originated in Hungary or Italy. It was described as being popular with the soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the 19th century, although the game was later banned as a game of chance. Overview Macao may be a forerunner of Baccarat. It is a gambling game using cards that resembles others of its genre such as Onze et Demi, Vingt Un, Trente Un or Siebzehn und Vier. The idea of ''Macao'' is also used in a dice game of the same name. Play The following rules are from Meyer:''Meyers Konversationslexikon'' (1908). "Macao" Each punter is dealt a card by the banker; additional cards may be 'bought'. The Ace counts as one point, Tens and court cards as nought, and the remaining cards count their pip value. The aim is to acquire nine points or as close as possible to nine points, in one's hand cards as quickly as possib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skittles (sport)
Skittles is a historical lawn game and target sport of European origin, from which the modern sport of nine-pin bowling is descended. In regions of the United Kingdom and Ireland the game remains as a popular indoor pub game. Playing Skittles is usually played indoors on a bowling alley, with one or more heavy balls, usually spherical but sometimes oblate, and several (most commonly nine) , or small bowling pins. The general object of the game is to use the ball(s) to knock over the skittles, either specific ones or all of them, depending upon game variant. Exact rules vary widely on a regional basis. Rules variations (Note: See Glossary below for explanation of named pins) Front pin first In this variant of the game, pins are counted only if the front pin is knocked over first. If the front pin is missed, any pins that are knocked over are not reset. In Devon Summer League, this rule is played frequently. In Bristol, this is the form of the game played and "all in" skittl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kümmelblättchen
Three-card Monte – also known as Find the Lady and Three-card Trick – is a confidence trick, confidence game in which the victims, or "marks", are tricked into betting a sum of money, on the assumption that they can find the "money card" among three face-down playing cards. It is very similar to the shell game except that cards are used instead of shells. In its full form, Three-card Monte is an example of a classic "Confidence trick#Short and long cons, short con" in which a shill pretends to conspire with the mark to cheat the dealer, while in fact doing the reverse. The mark has no chance whatsoever of winning, at any point in the game. In fact, anyone who is observed winning anything in the game can be presumed to be a shill. This confidence trick was already in use by the turn of the 15th century. Rules To play Three-card Monte, a dealer places three cards face down on a table, usually on a cardboard box which provides the ability to set up and disappear quickly. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lampeln
Lampeln or Lampln is an old Bavarian and Austrian plain-trick card game that is still played in a few places today. It is one of the Rams group of card games characterised by allowing players to drop out of the current game if they think they will be unable to win any tricks or a minimum number of tricks.''Card Games: Rams Group'' at www.pagat.com. Retrieved 16 October 2018 Background Historically, Lampeln was banned in the in 1904 as a usually played for money; this ban was confirmed by the Austrian government in 193 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stoßpudel
''Stoßpudel'' is an historical, south German and Austrian pinball game in which a ball is projected onto an inclined wooden playing board and falls into hollows or rolls into demarcated slots. Various points are scored for each shot depending on where the ball ends up. An 1834 Bavarian dictionary describes a ''Stoßpudel'' as a "''portable bowling alley, roughly like a type of billiard table, onto which an ivory ball is struck with a stick.''". Design ''Stoßpudel'' equipment consists of an inclined and framed wooden board, in which - similar to a pinball machine - a small steel or glass ball is inserted at the bottom right and fired by means of a spring plunger. The player can regulate the force himself by pulling the spring plunger back a certain distance and thus setting the tension of the mainspring. The ball shot into the playing field now rolls down the sloping wooden surface and is deflected by small iron nails hammered at regular intervals into the wooden board. The ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish Bank
Polish Bank (german: Polnische Bank), Polski Pachuck, Grundehrlich, Polish Red Dog or Stitch, is a gambling game using playing cards which resembles Häufeln and Mauscheln. The game is recorded as early as 1836 in the Austro-Hungarian Empire where it was banned on the grounds of being purely a game of chance or hazard. Rules The game is played with a 52-card pack of French playing cards. The Ace is the highest card; the Two the lowest. At the beginning of a game, the banker places an agreed fixed amount on the table in front of him. The other players now bet against it, but the sum of the opponents' bets must not exceed "half" the amount in the bank. The banker shuffles, offers the pack for cutting and plays the first card face up to the table and then deals the next three cards are to the other players. If his opponents can beat the banker's card, i.e. if there is a card of the same suit and higher rank than the banker's among the three punters' cards, the opponents ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bukidomino
Buki-Domino or Buki (german: Bukidomino, ''Buki-Domino'', ''Booky-Domino'', ''Buki'' or ''Sechser-Domino''), is a gambling game that was widely played in Vienna in the early 20th century. History Buki-Domino is mentioned in the literature by Joseph Roth (''Zipper und sein Vater''), Egon Erwin Kisch ("Lederbranche" in ''Nachlese'') and in the 15th chapter of the novel '' Zwischen neun und neun'' by Leo Perutz, which is entirely devoted to the precise description of a Buki partie. The game was banned in early September 1916 by the Austrian government in § 522 öStGB. The Austrian word, ''Buki'', is derived from English, 'bookie' (more rarely 'booky'), the abbreviation for 'bookmaker'. Around 1900, the English term 'bookmaker' was used in the German language in horse racing; only later did the Germanized term, ''Buchmacher'', prevail. The connection with betting on horses is made clear in Perutz's novel, firstly in the sense that players are betting "as if on racehorses" and, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boule (gambling Game)
Boule (French for 'ball') is a gambling game, similar to roulette, that dates back to the popular 19th-century game of ''Petits Chevaux'' ('Little Horses'). Playing The wheel is divided into 18 pockets which are numbered from 1 to 9, each number occurring twice. The numbers 1, 3, 6 and 8 are black, while the numbers 2, 4, 7 and 9 are red, and 5 is yellow. Instead of the ivory ball used in roulette, a natural rubber, rubber ball is used in Boule. Betting options Even odds *''Rouge'' (red: 2, 4, 7, 9) - ''Noir'' (black: 1, 3, 6, 8) *''Pair'' (even: 2, 4, 6, 8) - ''Impair'' (odd: 1, 3, 7, 9, except the 5) *''Manque'' (low: 1, 2, 3, 4) - ''Passe'' (high: 6, 7, 8, 9) The number five corresponds to the ''zéro'' in roulette: if the ''boule'' falls on the five, all simple chance bets are lost. Better than even odds *''Plein'': a bet on a single number, paid at 7:1. *''Cheval'': a bet on any two numbers, paid at 3:1. House advantage The overall house advantage for all forms of bett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roulette
Roulette is a casino game named after the French word meaning ''little wheel'' which was likely developed from the Italian game Biribi''.'' In the game, a player may choose to place a bet on a single number, various groupings of numbers, the color red or black, whether the number is odd or even, or if the numbers are high (19–36) or low (1–18). To determine the winning number, a croupier spins a wheel in one direction, then spins a ball in the opposite direction around a tilted circular track running around the outer edge of the wheel. The ball eventually loses momentum, passes through an area of deflectors, and falls onto the wheel and into one of thirty-seven (single-zero, French or European style roulette) or thirty-eight (double-zero, American style roulette) or thirty-nine (triple-zero, "Sands Roulette") colored and numbered pockets on the wheel. The winnings are then paid to anyone who has placed a successful bet. History The first form of roulette was devised in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poker
Poker is a family of comparing card games in which players wager over which hand is best according to that specific game's rules. It is played worldwide, however in some places the rules may vary. While the earliest known form of the game was played with just 20 cards, today it is usually played with a standard deck, although in countries where short packs are common, it may be played with 32, 40 or 48 cards.Parlett (2008), pp. 568–570. Thus poker games vary in deck configuration, the number of cards in play, the number dealt face up or face down, and the number shared by all players, but all have rules that involve one or more rounds of betting. In most modern poker games, the first round of betting begins with one or more of the players making some form of a forced bet (the '' blind'' or ''ante''). In standard poker, each player bets according to the rank they believe their hand is worth as compared to the other players. The action then proceeds clockwise as each play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
