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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 771 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COMMERCE , the name of a card-See also:

game. Any number can See also:play with an See also:ordinary See also:pack. There are several See also:variations of the game, but the following is a See also:common one. Each player receives three See also:cards, and three more are turned up as a " See also:pool." The first player may See also:exchange one or two of his cards for one or two of the exposed cards, putting his own, See also:face upwards, in their See also:place. His See also:object is to " make his See also:hand " (see below), but if he changes all three cards at once he cannot See also:change again. The next player can do likewise, and so on. Usually there are as many rounds as there are players, and a fresh card is added to the pool at the beginning of each. If a player passes once he cannot ex-change afterwards. When the rounds are finished the hands are shown, the holder of the best either receiving a stake from 19th See also:century. all the others, or, supposing each has started with three " lives," taking one See also:life from the lowest. The hands, in See also:order of merit, are: (i.) Tricon—three similar cards, three aces ranking above three See also:kings, and so on. (ii.) Sequence—three cards of the same suit in consecutive order; the highest sequence is the best.

(iii.) Flush—three cards of the same suit, the highest " point " wins, i.e. the highest number of pips, See also:

ace counting eleven and See also:court-cards ten. (iv.) Pair—two similar cards, the highest pair winning. (v.) Point—the largest number of pips winning, as in " flush," but there is no restriction as to suit. Sometimes " pair " and " point " are not recognized. A popular variation of Commerce is See also:Pounce Commerce. In this, if a player has already three similar cards, e.g. three nines, and the See also:fourth nine comes into the pool, he says " Pounce!" and takes it, thus obtaining a hand of four, which is higher than any hand of three: whenever a pounce occurs, a new card is turned up from the pack.

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