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His first game book, A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist, was published in 1743. About 14 editions were published during his lifetime; he later added rules for Quadrille, Piquet, Backgammon and Chess. Quadrille and Piquet are now museum pieces and Whist was dropped from the rulebooks in this country some years ago. Since nothing he wrote on card games remains in current editions, the practice of giving them titles such as The Revised Hoyle, The Up-to-Date Hoyle and even Poker According to Hoyle seems to me comparable to titling an engineering book Fulton on Diesel Engines, or one on atomic energy The Revised Aristotle.
This gambling story courtesy of:
"Scarne’s New Complete Guide to Gambling" (1986), written by John Scarne
