The household cyclopædia of practical receipts and daily wants . anymore. The object of each is so toplay out his stones that the dots ateither end count five, or combinationsof fives—as ten, fifteen, twenty, & you can count five you scoreone point toward game, which may betwenty, thirty, fifty, or any othernumber agreed on. The doubles countin full. Thus, if you have 4-4 at oneend, and can play 6-Q at the other, youcall twenty, and score four, becausefour times five are twenty. The playerwho gets out first scores one for do-mino, and one each for the stones hisoppoiioiii Holds. If neith
The household cyclopædia of practical receipts and daily wants . anymore. The object of each is so toplay out his stones that the dots ateither end count five, or combinationsof fives—as ten, fifteen, twenty, & you can count five you scoreone point toward game, which may betwenty, thirty, fifty, or any othernumber agreed on. The doubles countin full. Thus, if you have 4-4 at oneend, and can play 6-Q at the other, youcall twenty, and score four, becausefour times five are twenty. The playerwho gets out first scores one for do-mino, and one each for the stones hisoppoiioiii Holds. If neither go out, theliolder of the fewer number of pipscounts one each for all the unplayeddominoes. This game is improved bythe players drawing when they cannotplay. All Fours is played on the sameprinciple. Solitaire is played by one personwith a board pierced with ihii-ty-three holes, in ail but one oi whichare placed pegs or marbles. Thereare thus thirty-two occupied holes GAMES AND THEIR RULES. 269 and one empty one, as shown in thefollowing diagram :—. The game is commenced by theplayer leaving any given hole (thecentre one is the best for beginners)open, and then, by passing in a straightline over any other marble into avacant hole, taking the man that ispassed over, as in draughts. The ob-ject of the game is to remove from theboard all but one marble, v/hich shouldbe left in the hole which was open atthe beginning of the game. Themarbles can take in any direction,provided there is an open hole theother side of the marble to be course a marble must be taken atevery move. Tox and Geese.—This game isplayed by two persons with eighteenpieces (seventeen geese and one fox),on a board aiTano-ed as follows :—
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