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66 What Shall We Do Now?
game, when each player counts his words and the owner of the greatest number is the winner. If, however, a word has been chosen which, by the addition of another letter or so from the middle of the table, can be transformed into a longer word, the player who thinks of this longer word takes the shorter word from the other player and places it before himself. Thus, A might see the word " seat" among the letters, and calling it out, place it before him ; and then B, noticing another " t," might call out " state," and adding it to A's word, take that to himself. If, however, A then detected an " e" in the middle and called out " estate" the word would be his again. These losses and reconquests form the chief fun of the game. An " s " at the end of a word, forming a plural, is not allowed. |
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Many games of "Patience" can be played as well with numbered
cards as with ordinary playing cards. It does not matter much |
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what size they are, but for convenience, in playing on a small
table, they may as well be about an inch wide and two inches
long, with the number at the top. Thus :— |
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A " Patience " set consists of four packs of cards each containing four sets of thirteen cards numbered from I to 13. These can |
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