The hand-book of games : comprising new or carefully revised treatises on whist, piquet, ecarté, lansquenet, boston, quadrille, cribbage, and other card games : faro, rouge et noir, hazard, roulette : backgammon, draughts : billiards, bagatelle, American bowls, etc. etc. (1850)
Bohn, Henry G. (Henry George), 1796-1884, editor, Harrison & Sons, printer · London : Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden · leaf 428
lower right-hand corner. Each player has twelve men ; which on beginning the game, are placed on their respective sides, on the first three lines of white squares. The following diagrams represent the board and men in their original position ; and also the mode in which the squares are… … The men being placed, the game is begun by each player moving alternately one of his men, along the white diagonal on which they are first posted. The men can only move for¬ ward, either to the right or left, one square at a time, unless they have attained one of the four squares on the extreme…
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