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.

CHAP. XXXII.

Of Inn and Inn.

INn and Inn is a Game very much used in an Ordinary, and may be play'd by two or three, each having a Box in his hand. It is play'd with four Dice. You may drop what you will, Six-pences, Shillings▪ or Guinneys; every Inn you drop, and every Inn and Inn you sweep all; but if you throw out, if but two plays, your Adversary wins all; if three play, that Out is a Bye between the two other Gamesters, which they may either divide or throw out for it. Here you are to observe that Out is when you have thrown no Dubbl••ts on the four Dice; Inn is when you have thrown 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Dubblets of any sort, as two Aces, two Deuces, two Kings▪ &c. Inn and Inn is, when you throw all D••bb••••••s, wh••ther all of a sort or otherwise, viz. four Aces,

four Deuces, or four Cinques, or two Aces, two Deuces, two Treys, two Quaters, or two Cinques, two Sixes, and so forth.

Your Battail may be as much and as little as you will, from twenty Shillings to twenty Pounds, and so onward to a thousand, which Battail is not ended till every penny of that money agreed upon for the Battail be won; and it is but requisite, for it is frequently seen that in a Battail of ten pound 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Gentle∣man hath been reduced to five Shillings, and yet hath won at last the Battail.

For a Gamester that would win without hazarding much his money, Dice that will run very seldom other∣wise but Sixes, Cinques, Quaters, &c. are very necessary; If those instruments are not to be had, a Taper-box will not be amiss, that as the Dice are thrown in may stick by the way, and so thrown in may stick by the way, and so thrown to advantage. I have heard of one, who having spent the major part of his Pa∣trimony in good fellowship, a••d such pastims as the heat of blood with vigor∣ous youth most prosecute; at length consider'd how he should live here∣after,

and finding but small encourage∣ments at home, and lesser abroad, thought if he could contrive a way to win a considerable sum at play (having been a great loser himself) that should be the basis of his future settlement; after various consultations within him∣self he at length contrived this strata∣gem; He caused a Box to be made, not as they are usual screwed within, but smooth, and procured it to be so well painted and shadowed within that it lookt like a screw'd Box; now this Box was but half board wide at top, and narrow at bottom, that the Dice as aforesaid might stick, and the Box being smooth would come out without tumbling. With this Box he went and play'd at Inn and Inn, by vertue where∣of and his art of taking up and throw∣ing in his Dice into the Box, he got the first night a Thousand pound, and the next night Two hundred a year, with a Coach and six Horses, which Coach and Horses (being very valuable) he sold, but the Estate he lives on to this day with great improvements, and ne∣ver would handle a Dye since, well

knowing how many worthy Families it hath ruin'd.