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With hoyles rules of games, all you need to have hours of fun with family and friends is a board game or a deck of cards. Celebrate according to hoyle day with a game of bridge. Hoyle is a name best known for the various books that compiled the rules for numerous card, dice, board, and tokenstyle games, also known as classic games. This 264 page book teaches you new ways to play numerous card and board games. Eventually, he made additions to include standardizing the rules of other games such as backgammon, chess, cribbage, etc.
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