Foster's Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of Games Revised and Enlarged to October, 1914; Including All Indoor Games Played to-Day, With Suggestions ... All Official Laws to Date (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Foster, Robert Frederick

9780331839289: Foster's Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of Games Revised and Enlarged to October, 1914; Including All Indoor Games Played to-Day, With Suggestions ... All Official Laws to Date (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0331839288 ISBN 13: 9780331839289

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2017

Excerpt from Foster's Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of Games Revised and Enlarged to October, 1914; Including All Indoor Games Played to-Day, With Suggestions for Good Play, Illustrative Hands and All Official Laws to Date

This is undoubtedly because such games are learnt at the card table and not from books. A person who is shown a new game cannot remember all its details, some of which may not have been explained to him even. If he tries to teach it to others while his knowledge is in this imperfect state, he will naturally invent rules of his own to cover the points he has forgotten, or has never learnt, usually borrowing ideas from games with which he is more familiar.

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