The compleat gamester, or, Instructions how to play at billiards, trucks, bowls, and chess together with all manner of usual and most gentile games either on cards or dice : to which is added the arts and mysteries of riding, racing, archery, and cock-fighting.
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The compleat gamester, or, Instructions how to play at billiards, trucks, bowls, and chess together with all manner of usual and most gentile games either on cards or dice : to which is added the arts and mysteries of riding, racing, archery, and cock-fighting.
Author
Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.
Publication
London :: Printed by A.M. for R. Cutler and to be sold by Henry Brome ...,
1674.
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Subject terms
Games -- Early works to 1800.
Gambling -- Early works to 1800.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 17th century.
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"The compleat gamester, or, Instructions how to play at billiards, trucks, bowls, and chess together with all manner of usual and most gentile games either on cards or dice : to which is added the arts and mysteries of riding, racing, archery, and cock-fighting." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34637.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 19, 2024.
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CHAP. XXXI.
KETCH-DOLT.
AT Ketch-Dolt the first throws
and lays down from the heap of
men without the Tables, what is
thrown at it may be Sice Deuce, if the
other throw either Sice or Deuce, and
draw them not from his Adversaries
Tables to the same point in his own,
but takes them from the heap, and lays
the Ace down, he is dolted & loseth the
Game, or if he but touch a man of the
heap and then recall himself, the loss is
the same. Some by frequent practice
will never be Dolted, and then they
strive who shall fill up their Tables
first; which done, he that bears them off
first hath won the game. And so much
for play within the Tables.
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