Popular pastimes for amusement and instruction : being a standard work on games, plays, magic, and natural phenomena suitable for all occasions : containing parlor games, charming tableaux, tricks of magic, charades and conundrums, curious puzzles, phrenology and mind reading, palmistry or how to read the hand, humorous and pathetic recitations, dialogues, etc., etc. : including the delightful art of entertaining, the whole forming a charming treasury of pastimes for the home, public schools and academies, lodges, social gatherings, Sunday schools, etc., etc. (1901)
Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Philadelphia : National Publishing Co. · leaf 74
into the left-hand table, two of your menare placed upon the ace point in your ad-versarys inner table; five upon the sixthpoint in his outer table ; three upon thecinque point in your own outer table; andfive upon the sixth point in your innertable, and the adversarys men are to beplaced so as to… … BACKGAMMON BOARD. your adversary in executing the same de-sign on his part, are in your favor. Thefirst most advantageous throw is aces, as itblocks the sixth point in your outer table;and secures the cinque point in your innertable, so that you adversarys two menupon your ace point cannot escape…
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