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19. Trois-deuce, bring two men from the five placed in your adversary's outer table, for a gammon only.
20. Trois-ace, make the cinque-point in your own table for a gammon or hit.
21. * Deuce-ace, play one man from the five placed in your adversary's outer table for the deuce; and for the ace, play a man down upon the cinque-point in your own table, for a gammon only. |
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DIRECTIONS HOW TO PLAY THE CHANCES THAT ARE MARKED THUS (*), FOR A HIT ONLY.
1. Two trois, play two of them on the cinque-point in your own, and with the other two take the quartre-point in your adversary's table.
2 fTwo deuces, play two of them on the qua-tre-point in your own, and with the other two take the trois-point in your adversary's table.
By playing the two foregoing cases as directed, you avoid being shut up in your adversary's table, and have the chance of throwing high doublets, to win the hit.
3. •Two fours, two of them are to take your adversary's cinque-point in his table ; and for the other two bring two men from the five placed in your adversary's outer table.
4. * 1. Cinque-ace, play the cinque from the five men placed in your adversary's outer table, and the ace from your adversary's ace-point.
5. 2. Quatre-ace, play the quatre from the five men placed in your adversary's outer table, and the ace from those on your adversary's ace-point.
G. * 3. Deuce-ace, play the deuce from the five men placed in your adversary's outer table, and the ace from your adversary's ace-point.
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