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Foster's Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of Games, Including All the Indoor Games Played at the Present Day. With Suggestions for Good Play, All the Official Laws, Illustrative Hands, and a Brief Statement of the Doctrine of Chances as Applied to Games

Robert Frederick Foster

Mangaka: Robert Frederick Foster
First published: 1909

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This volume serves as a comprehensive reference for card games, providing players with official laws and strategic guidance for a wide variety of indoor pastimes. By detailing the doctrine of chances alongside illustrative hands, it functions as an essential manual for those looking to deepen their understanding of both the rules and the mathematical foundations of play.

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Robert Frederick Foster, a renowned authority on card games during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, published this comprehensive volume to serve as a definitive resource for parlor and casino games. Emerging from an era where codified rules were essential to curbing disputes in burgeoning social clubs and domestic gaming circles, the book aimed to standardize the disparate practices of the time. Foster, a prolific writer who also held a patent for a whist-scoring device, meticulously integrated the history of games with practical strategic advice.

The design of the work focuses on clarity and institutional authority, reflecting the instructional tone common to Victorian-era reference books. By organizing a vast array of indoor games—ranging from whist and poker to chess and backgammon—under a single encyclopedic banner, Foster provided a systematic framework for players of all levels. The work was widely regarded for its depth and remained a staple reference in private libraries for several decades, praised for its clear articulation of the laws governing play and its early applications of probability theory.

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