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BACKGAMMON. 219
game, because you by that means preserve your game at home ; and you must then always endeavour to gain both your adversary's ace and trois-points, or his ace and deuce-points, and take care to keep three men upon his ace-point, that if you chance to hit him from thence, that point may remain still secure to you.
8. At the beginning of a set, do not play for a back-game, because by so doing you would play to a great disadvantage, running the risk of a gammon to win a single hit. |
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DIRECTIONS FOR PLAYING, AT SETTING OUT, THE 36 CHANCES OF THE DICE, EITHER FOR A GAMMON, OR SINGLE HIT.
1. Two aces to be played on your cinque-point and bar-point, for either gammon or hit.
2. Two sixes to be played on your adversary's bar-point, and on your own bar-point, for a gammon or hit.
3. Two trois, two to be played on your cinque-points, and the other two on your trois-point in your own table, for a gammon only.
4. f Two deuces to be played on your quatre-point in your own table, and two to be brought over from the five men placed in your adversary's outer table, for a gammon only.
5. I Two fours to be brought over from the five men placed in your adversary's outer table, and to be put upon the cinque-point in your own table, for a gammon only.
6. Two fives to be brought over from the five men placed in your adversary's outer table, and to be put upon the trois-point in your own table, for a gammon or hit. |
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