The Compleat Gamester, first published in 1674, is one of the earliest known English-language games compendia. It was published anonymously, but later...
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Gamesters, a 1920 American silent film Russ Gamester (born 1965), American auto racing driver The Compleat Gamester, a 1674 English-language games compendia...
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Charles Cotton (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
translating the work of Michel de Montaigne from French, for his contributions to The Compleat Angler, and for the influential The Compleat Gamester attributed...
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publishing the later editions of Charles Cotton's historic work, The Compleat Gamester. Charles Cotton edited the first edition of The Compleat Gamester in 1676...
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Basset (banking game) (section The Edge)
the ruleset described in the later editions of The Compleat Gamester. The second parlay is most commonly depicted as being the sept-et-le-va, per these...
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Cue sports (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
The Compleat Gamester. "Pool History". The Pool Shop. Archived from the original on November 19, 2011. Retrieved 1 December 2011. "Meeting of the Champions;...
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representative of the Poker family." The rules of Brag first appear in 1721 in The Compleat Gamester where it is referred to as "The Ingenious and Pleasant...
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Cotton in The Compleat Gamester (1674) thus: Passage is a Game at dice to be played at but by two, and it is performed with three Dice. The Caster throws...
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Ruff, the latter name to distinguish it from the ancestor of Whist and Bridge, English Ruff. The rules are only known from The Compleat Gamester, first...
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Irish (game) (redirect from The Irish game)
Charles Cotton's The Compleat Gamester which was published in 1674 and reprinted until 1750. Fiske says it was "evidently much played in the 17th and 18th...
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Patience (game) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Cotton's The Compleat Gamester (1674) and Abbé Bellecour's Academie des Jeux (1674). Books were also reported to appear in Sweden and Russia in the early...
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Faro Ladies (category Gambling in the United Kingdom)
century. Charles Cotton’s The Compleat Gamester from 1674 was still widely cited during the era. However, in the 1790s, the issue took on new importance...
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Cotton's Compleat Gamester of 1674, where the game was reported as popular in Kent. It is probably of Dutch ancestry, and is the game that gave the name jack...
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Ombre (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
so that by discarding the eights, nines and tens, there would remain thirteen cards in the stock". Seymour's The Compleat Gamester (1722) contains a frontispiece...
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Charles Cotton's The Compleat Gamester (1674), for an indoor version played on a billiards table, indicate that the general offensive goal of the game is to...
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Edmond Hoyle (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
pushed off the market Charles Cotton's ageing The Compleat Gamester, which had been considered the "standard" English-language reference work on the playing...
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Johnson, in the various editions of The Compleat Gamester, the later editions being reprints of the first with minor spelling changes. The game is played...
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least 1589. The rules of Costly Colours are first described by Charles Cotton in the first edition of his compendium, The Compleat Gamester, in 1674; and...
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Backgammon (redirect from The cruellest game)
Scriptorium. Bohn, Henry George (1850). The Hand-Book of Games. London: Bohn. Cotton, Charles (1674). The Compleat Gamester. London: A.M. OCLC 558875155. Fiske...
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Restoration literature (category The Restoration)
Restoration, including Charles Cotton's The Compleat Gamester, which is one of the earliest attempts at settling the rules of card games), but, like Pilgrim's...
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the hands of the rest. — Charles Cotton, The Compleat Gamester, (1674) The rules were reprinted, with minor changes, in all editions of The Compleat Gamester...
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Alstonefield (category Towns and villages of the Peak District)
contributions to The Compleat Angler and for the influential The Compleat Gamester, was born in the village. Alstonefield has a parish council, the lowest tier...
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Lanterloo (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
editions of The Compleat Gamester, while a late 18th century description is given in Covent Garden Magazine. Loo was considered a great pastime by the idle rich...
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1634. The first French games compendium, La Maison Académique, appeared in 1654 and it was followed in 1674 by Charles Cotton's The Compleat Gamester, although...
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Post and pair (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
early 16th to the 17th centuries, which may have survived longer in local versions. Charles Cotton, in his 1674 The Compleat Gamester, mentions that...
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Jonathan Wild (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
the Gamesters (often appended to Charles Cotton's The Compleat Gamester), about notorious gamblers. In 1714, Captain Alexander Smith had written the best-selling...
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in the first edition of his compendium, The Compleat Gamester, in 1674; and reprinted in subsequent editions up to 1754. In 1816, Singer reprints the rules...
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game of the servants' quarters along with Loo, Whist and All Fours. Cotton's rules were reprinted in various editions of The Compleat Gamester until 1750...
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additions, was published without the author's name in 1744. This book, which owes nothing to Charles Cotton's The Compleat Gamester (1674), has been of great...
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St James's Church, Piccadilly (redirect from St James-in-the-Fields)
translating the work of Michel de Montaigne from the French, for his contributions to The Compleat Angler and for the influential The Compleat Gamester (memorial...
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