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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 695 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALL FOURS , a card See also:

game (known also in See also:America as Seven Up, Old Sledge or High-See also:Low-See also:Jack) usually played by two players, though four may See also:play. A full See also:pack is used and each player receives seven counters. Four points can be scored, one each for high, the highest See also:trump out, for low, the lowest trump dealt, for Jack, the See also:knave of trumps, and for game, the See also:majority of pips in the See also:cards of the tricks that a player has won. See also:Ace See also:counts 4, See also:King 3, See also:Queen 2, Knave 1, and ten 10 points. Low is scored by the See also:person to whom it is dealt; High of course wins a See also:trick; Jack is scored by the player who finally has it among his tricks. If Jack is turned up the dealer scores the point. A player who plays a high or low trump is entitled to ask if they are High or Low. The game is 10 or 11 points. Six cards are dealt to each, the thirteenth being turned up for trumps. The non-dealer may propose or beg if he does not like his See also:hand. If the dealer refuses the See also:elder hand scores a point; if he consents he gives and takes three more cards, the seventh being turned up for trumps, which must be of a different suit from the See also:original trump card; otherwise six more cards are dealt out, and so on till a fresh trump suit appears. The non-dealer then leads; the other must trump or follow suit, or forfeit a point.

Jack may be played to any trick. Each pair of cards is a trick, and is collected by the winner. A fresh See also:

deal may be claimed if the dealer exposes one of his adversary's cards, or if he gives himself or his adversary too few or too many.

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