This game is admired for its fairness and simplicity ; depending entirely on chance, being soon decided, and not requiring that attention which most other games of cards do. , ROUGE ET NOIR, Game of. — This game is much in vogue on the continent. It takes its name of red and black, not from the cards, but from the colours marked on the green cloth with which the table is covered. CARDS 107 CARDS All the terms used in this grams are French ; nevertheless to be better un- derstood by the general reader, we shall give them in English as well. The game is played in the following manner : — The tailleur and croupier sit opposite to each other, at each side of the table, with a basket, for the purpose of re- ceiving the cards of every coup after dealing, placed on the middle of the table, just between them, The tailleur then passes round six packs of cards, to be shuffled, and mixed confusedly to- gether by all the company. He then shuffles them himself, put- ting all the end cards into various parts of the entire lot, until he comes to an honor of any kind, which being placed upright at the end, is offered to a punter or player, who puts the same into any part of the pack he thinks proper : the tailleur then separates the pack just at that part, and lays that portion of the card that was below the honour uppermost, and, taking there- from a handful of cards, places a weight upon the remainder, and com- mences to deal : he takes afterwards the other portions from the heap under the weight, as they are wanted, until the whole are dealt. He looks at the first card, and puts it face downwards : a red card and a black card are then placed back to back, and that one which is of the same colour with the first card he looked at, is placed uppermost in a conspicuous manner : these two cards that are placed back to back, are turned over each deal, if necessary, so that that card may be uppermost whose colour is the same as the tum-up card in each succeeding coup. When the stakes are deposited, the tailleur cries " Noir” (black,) and turn- ing up the top card, places each suc- ceeding card in a row, until the number of points of those turned up shall exceed thirty ; whatever number that may happen to be he declares, at "trente et une ” (one and thirty ;) if above that number, he merely says, “deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf" (two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,) if it reaches forty, he says quar- ante. Another pared of the cards is then dealt out for Rouge, or red, until he comes to thirty-one, or the number nearest to it ; and whichever colour comes nearest to that number wins the stakes ; this the tailleur declares by saying “rouge gagne ” (red wins) 0/ “ rouge perd " (red loses.) These two parcels, one for each colour, make coup.

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This game is admired for its fairness and simplicity ; depending entirely on chance, being soon decided, and not requiring that attention which most other games of cards do. , ROUGE ET NOIR, Game of. — This game is much in vogue on the continent. It takes its name of red and black, not from the cards, but from the colours marked on the green cloth with which the table is covered. All the terms used in this game are French ; nevertheless to be better understood by the general reader, we shall give them in English as well. The game is played in the following manner : — The tailleur and croupier sit opposite to each other, at each side of the table, with a basket, for the purpose of receiving the cards of every coup after dealing, placed on the middle of the table, just between them, The tailleur then passes round six packs of cards, to be shuffled, and mixed confusedly together by all the company. He then shuffles them himself, putting all the end cards into various parts of the entire lot, until he comes to an honor of any kind, which being placed upright at the end, is offered to a punter or player, who puts the same into any part of the pack he thinks proper : the tailleur then separates the pack just at that part, and lays that portion of the card that was below the honour uppermost, and, taking therefrom a handful of cards, places a weight upon the remainder, and commences to deal : he takes afterwards the other portions from the heap under the weight, as they are wanted, until the whole are dealt. He looks at the first card, and puts it face downwards : a red card and a black card are then placed back to back, and that one which is of the same colour with the first card he looked at, is placed uppermost in a conspicuous manner : these two cards that are placed back to back, are turned over each deal, if necessary, so that that card may be uppermost whose colour is the same as the tum-up card in each succeeding coup. When the stakes are deposited, the tailleur cries " Noir” (black,) and turning up the top card, places each succeeding card in a row, until the number of points of those turned up shall exceed thirty ; whatever number that may happen to be he declares, at "trente et une ” (one and thirty ;) if above that number, he merely says, “deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf" (two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,) if it reaches forty, he says quarante. Another pared of the cards is then dealt out for Rouge, or red, until he comes to thirty-one, or the number nearest to it ; and whichever colour comes nearest to that number wins the stakes ; this the tailleur declares by saying “rouge gagne ” (red wins) 0/ “ rouge perd " (red loses.) These two parcels, one for each colour, make coup.

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