SIXTY-SIX .
INTRODUCTORY.
TIHE game of Sixty-six is usually played by two persons, with \Jt- a pack of twenty-four cards ; tho twos, threes, fours, fives, sixes, sevens and eights being thrown out from a pack of fifty-two card~. DEALING. The players UrnYing cut t n•ot •be looked a t agalin 'during the pla y. This is the strict rule ; 'but sometim es by prevrous agreem elllt, each player :s a llowed •to ex11:11ine h'is own tricks. '!'he winner of the t riclc then dra,ws ~h e top ca rd of the sbock, his adversa ry t'he n ex t card, the numoer of cards in h a nd being thus r estored to six, as a t first. The winn••r then leads •to t he n ex:t trick , ·his ·opponen t plays to it a.nd so on, aHerna tely ·playi ng a n d drawing, until bh e stock 'is ex'h•a usted, or six.ty -s ix is a ll'nounced, or one of the p layers closes. ''l"he oibject of the pla y is to win counting cards in the trick s, a nd t o decla r e m a rriages. F.ach play•l'l', fur each card ·in . the t1,ick won 'by •him, counts 'towaril sixty-s ix as follows: For a n ace, 11: ~o·r a ten, 10; for a king , 4; for a queen, ~: for a kna ve, 2. Th e nine h as n o value. Ma rriage consists ·of a king and queen or the same suit h eld in the h and of one .player . A m a r.nage can only b·~ d ecla r ed rufter winning a trick, a nd •before leadi ng agai n ;