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Cheat (game)
Cheat (also known as Bluff, Bullshit, Liar or I Doubt ItGuide to games: Discarding games: How to play cheat, The Guardian, 22 November 2008retrieved 28 March 2011) is a card game where the players aim to get rid of all of their cards.The Pan Book of Card Games, p288, PAN, 1960 (second edition), Hubert PhillipsThe Oxford A-Z of Card Games, David Parlett, Oxford University Press, It is a game of deception, with cards being played face-down and players being permitted to lie about the cards they have played. A challenge is usually made by players calling out the name of the game, and the loser of a challenge has to pick up every card played so far. Cheat is classed as a party game. As with many card games, cheat has an oral tradition and so people are taught the game under different names. Rules One pack of 52 cards is used for four or fewer players; games with five or more players generally combine two 52-card packs. The cards are shuffled and dealt as evenly as possible among t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hand Of Cards
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books by decree in 1586, it is the second oldest university press after Cambridge University Press. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics known as the Delegates of the Press, who are appointed by the vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford. The Delegates of the Press are led by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as OUP's chief executive and as its major representative on other university bodies. Oxford University Press has had a similar governance structure since the 17th century. The press is located on Walton Street, Oxford, opposite Somerville College, in the inner suburb of Jericho. For the last 500 years, OUP has primarily focused on the publication of pedagogical texts an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beating Games
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English Card Games
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Fujian
Fujian (; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien) is a province on the southeastern coast of China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its capital is Fuzhou, while its largest city by population is Quanzhou, both located near the coast of the Taiwan Strait in the east of the province. While its population is predominantly of Chinese ethnicity, it is one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse provinces in China. The dialects of the language group Min Chinese were most commonly spoken within the province, including the Fuzhou dialect of northeastern Fujian and various Hokkien dialects of southeastern Fujian. Hakka Chinese is also spoken, by the Hakka people in Fujian. Min dialects, Hakka and Mandarin Chinese are mutually unintelligible. Due to emigration, a sizable amount of the ethnic Chinese populations of Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Maid (card Game)
Old Maid is a Victorian card game for two or more players probably deriving from an ancient gambling game in which the loser pays for the drinks. History The rules of the game are first recorded in 1884 by Charles M. Green and referred to in '' Bazaar, Exchange and Mart'' in 1883 as a "newly invented game". However, it may well be much older and derived from the French game of Vieux Garçon, whose rules first appear in 1853, or from the German game of Black Peter whose rules are recorded as early as 1821. All these games are probably ancient and derived from simple gambling games in which the aim was to determine a loser who had to pay for the next round of drinks (c.f. drinking game). They originally employed a pack of 32 or 52 French cards, the queen of diamonds or jack of spades typically being the odd card and the player who is last in and left holding a single queen or jack becoming the "old maid", "", or "Black Peter" depending on the game. The term "old maid" pred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oral Tradition
Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication wherein knowledge, art, ideas and cultural material is received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another. Vansina, Jan: ''Oral Tradition as History'' (1985), reported statements from present generation which "specifies that the message must be oral statements spoken, sung or called out on musical instruments only"; "There must be transmission by word of mouth over at least a generation". He points out, "Our definition is a working definition for the use of historians. Sociologists, linguists or scholars of the verbal arts propose their own, which in, e.g., sociology, stresses common knowledge. In linguistics, features that distinguish the language from common dialogue (linguists), and in the verbal arts features of form and content that define art (folklorists)."Ki-Zerbo, Joseph: "Methodology and African Prehistory", 1990, ''UNESCO International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a Gener ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Parlett
David Parlett (born 18 May 1939 in London) is a games scholar, historian, and translator from South London, who has studied both card games and board game Board games are tabletop games that typically use . These pieces are moved or placed on a pre-marked board (playing surface) and often include elements of table, card, role-playing, and miniatures games as well. Many board games feature a co ...s. He is the president of the British Skat Association. His published works include many popular books on games such as ''Penguin Book of Card Games'', as well as the more academic volumes ''The Oxford Guide to Card Games'' and ''The Oxford History of Board Games'', both now out of print. Parlett has also invented many card games and board games. The most successful of these is '' Hare and Tortoise'' (1974). Its German edition was awarded Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) in 1979. Parlett is a Quaker. Books Games and gaming * ''All the Best Card Games'' * ''Anarquía y Ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shedding-type Game
A shedding-type card game is a game in which the player's objective is to empty one's hand of all cards before all other players. Games with action/power/trick cards In these games, players win by having the fewest points. * Crazy Eights * Craits * One Card (game), One Card * Cabo (game), Cabo * Switch (card game), Switch Progressively add rules * Bartok (card game), Bartok * Mao (card game), Mao One suit per player * Red nines One deck per pair Players play in pairs, shed sets of cards for points and win by reaching a certain point value. * Biriba * Canasta Different trump suit per player * Bauernheinrich, Farmer Henry Bluffing * Cheat (game), Cheat Proprietary * Boom-O * Castle (card game), Castle * Phase 10 * Scrabble Slam! * Taki (card game), Taki * Uno (card game), Uno * Whot Miscellaneous * Cards in the hat * Speed (card game), Speed Other * Pits (card game), Pits {{Tabletop games by type Card game terminology Shedding-type card games, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Phillips
Hubert Phillips (13 December 1891 – 9 January 1964) was a British economist, journalist, broadcaster, bridge player and organiser, composer of puzzles and quizzes, and the author of some 70 books. Life Education and early career Phillips was educated at Sexey's School, Bruton, and Merton College, Oxford, where he read History and Economics, taking a first class degree. He served in the British Army with the Essex Regiment throughout World War I. After the war, he became Head of the Department of Economics at Bristol University and Head of Extra-Mural Studies 1919–24; he was Director, Liberal Research Dept 1924; Economic Adviser and Secretary, Liberal Industrial Inquiry 1924–28; and adviser to the Parliamentary Liberal Party 1926-8. He stood as a Liberal Party candidate in 1929 at Wallasey. He joined the ''News Chronicle'' in 1930. Later career Phillips' later career was as a journalist, broadcaster, freelance author, and organiser. Phillips was the founder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shedding-type Game
A shedding-type card game is a game in which the player's objective is to empty one's hand of all cards before all other players. Games with action/power/trick cards In these games, players win by having the fewest points. * Crazy Eights * Craits * One Card (game), One Card * Cabo (game), Cabo * Switch (card game), Switch Progressively add rules * Bartok (card game), Bartok * Mao (card game), Mao One suit per player * Red nines One deck per pair Players play in pairs, shed sets of cards for points and win by reaching a certain point value. * Biriba * Canasta Different trump suit per player * Bauernheinrich, Farmer Henry Bluffing * Cheat (game), Cheat Proprietary * Boom-O * Castle (card game), Castle * Phase 10 * Scrabble Slam! * Taki (card game), Taki * Uno (card game), Uno * Whot Miscellaneous * Cards in the hat * Speed (card game), Speed Other * Pits (card game), Pits {{Tabletop games by type Card game terminology Shedding-type card games, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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