All-Fours

All-Fours, is a card game known in America as Old Sledge, or Seven Up, is usually played by two players, with the full pack of fifty-two cards, which rank in play as at Whist, the ace being the highest, and the two

Related Topics:
Card game - Whist

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the lowest. The game is seven points.

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The game is very popular in Blackburn, England, where it is traditionally played in pubs. Even at the present time it is still organised into pub teams who play on Sunday nights. Nobody is quite sure how long this game has been played in Blackburn, but it has been a fixture in pubs here for a long time.

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The game has also been exported to the island nation of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, where is it is the National Game.

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There are four different items which count towards the score, whence the name All-Fours. Such items are as follows:

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High.--The highest trump out, scoring one to the

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original holder.

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Low.--The lowest trump out, scoring one to the

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original holder.

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Jack.--The knave of trumps, scoring one to the

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dealer, if turned up; if otherwise, to the winner of

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the trick to which it falls.

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Game.--Scoring one to the ultimate holder of

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the more valuable cards in the tricks won by him,

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according to the following scale:--

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• For each ten (trump or otherwise) 10
• For each ace 4
• For each king 3
• For each queen 2
• For each knave 1

In the case of the players being equal in this particular, or of neither party holding any card which counts towards Game, the elder hand scores the point.

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