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Whether you play card games, dice games, parlor games, word games, chess, checker, backgammon, or solitaire games, here is a comprehensive, up-to-date book with the complete rules of your favorite games of skill and chance. ACCORDING TO HOYLE gives not only the rules but expert advice on winning, too.

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This antique book contains a detailed guide to canasta, including helpful illustrations, detailed descriptions, rules, and more. After reading this book, the beginner may sit down with confidence; the player who has already dabbled in the game will play with increased skill, and even the already skillful player will learn much to add to their strategy. The chapters of this book include: 'Learning Canasta', 'Keeping Score', 'Strategy in Canasta General Principles', 'When You Make the Initial Meld', 'Canasta for Two', 'Canasta for Four', 'Laws of Canasta', 'Irregularities', 'Variations in...