Ebook: Hoyle's Rules of Games

Rules and suggestions for playing games of chance and skill. An invaluable addition to the bookshelf of anyone who ever expects to be disconnected from the internet on a rainy day...

While largely focused on card games (such as Bridge, Hearts, and dozens of Poker games), the text also covers the history and play of Chess, Checkers, Backgammon, Morris, dominoes and dice games. Games for children as young as three, and "parlor games" for parties are also introduced. Finally, the rules and descriptions quite helpfully prepare any reader for gaming in commercial establishments as well as at social gatherings.


This was an extraordinarily popular edition originally written in the 1940s. Morehead (and his successor Mott-Smith) present instructions for playing several hundred games in a slightly-archaic manner that somehow increases their authority without diminishing clarity. They also offer sprightly insights into the history and development of the games they examine; the classic illustrations are burned into the memories of millions who learned to play one or more games using this book. Other, and more modern, versions exist - but this is THE "Hoyle" for many.