Foster's Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of Games / Including all indoor games played to-day. With suggestions for good play, illustrative hands, and all official laws to date

An encyclopedic compendium of indoor and parlor games offering systematic, alphabetized entries that describe equipment, number of players, and step-by-step rules for each game, accompanied by diagrams, illustrative hands, and official laws when available. Technical terms are defined and highlighted, disputed points are reconciled through comparative histories of variants, and strategic suggestions and scoring conventions are provided. Coverage spans card games, billiards and pool, board games, dominoes, dice games, and other recreations, with sections on probabilities and laws governing play. The layout is designed for quick reference, with paragraph headings and cross-references to locate specific rules or terminology efficiently.