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Blind Hookey, also known as Dutch Bank, Banker and Broker and Honest John, is a simple game of chance using playing cards. The game is popular in Germany where it is known as ''Häufeln'', ''Bockspiel'' or ''Päckchen wenden'', after the little packets of cards used.
Blind Hookey, also known as Dutch Bank, Banker and Broker and Honest John, is a simple game of chance using playing cards. The game is popular in Germany where it is known as ''Häufeln'', ''Bockspiel'' or ''Päckchen wenden'', after the little packets of cards used.
History
Häufeln is recorded as early as 1773 as a card game in which there are as many piles (''Häufeln'') as players.Adelung (1773), p. 1001. The name Blind Hookey appears in 1824 in ''Gallignani's Messenger''. In 1835, ''Häufeln'', is described as "a pernicious game of chance, similar toPharo
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." But it was also played as a family game for e.g. nuts.
Rules
Either a 52-card, French-suited pack is used or a 32-card French- or German-suited pack. The banker shuffles, offers the cards for cutting, places any number of piles of cards face down on the table and keeps one for himself, selected by the punters. The punters then bet on the rest. The bottom cards in the piles decide who wins and loses: If the lowest card in a pile is higher than the banker's card, the punter wins 1:1; if the bottom card is equal or lower in rank, the banker wins.House advantage
Winning and losing are decided by two cards: * If the banker and punter have different cards, they are likely to win ½, and so neither party has an advantage. * However, if the two cards are equal in rank, the banker wins: the probability that a pair will occur when two cards are drawn from a pack of 52 is just 3 : 51 or 1/17 = 5.9%. If you play with a pack of 32German-suited
German-suited playing cards are a very common style of traditional playing card used in many parts of Central Europe characterised by 32- or 36-card packs with the suits of Acorns (''Eichel'' or ''Kreuz''), Leaves (''Grün'', ''Blatt'', ''Laub ...
or Piquet
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cards, the probability is 3 : 31 = 9.7%.
Thus the house advantage is:
* 5.9 % if a pack of 52 French-suited cards
French-suited playing cards or French-suited cards are cards that use the French suits of (clovers or clubs ), (tiles or diamonds ), (hearts ), and (pikes or spades ). Each suit contains three or four face/court cards. I ...
is used
* 9.7 % if a pack of 32 cards is used
If, in the case of cards of equal rank, the banker collects only half the stakes, the house advantage reduces to 1/34 = 2.9% when using a pack of 52 cards, or to 3/62 = 4.8% when using a pack of 32 cards.
References
Literature
* Adelung, Johann Christoph (1773). ''Versuch eines Vollständigen Grammatisch-Kritischen Wörterbuches der Hochdeutschen Mundart''. Part 2 (F–K). Leipzig: Breitkopf. * * _ (1908). ''Meyers Konversationslexikon''. * * * * {{Banking games Banking games German gambling games