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Hoyle's Official Book of Games (later Hoyle Classic, Hoyle Card Games, or the Hoyle Series) is a series of computer games released from 1989 to 2016 that was initially developed and published by Sierra On-Line. The series focuses primarily on playing cards, but has also included board games, puzzles, dice, and dominos.
Hoyle Card Games is a Game Boy Color-only video game that was developed by Sandbox Studios and published by Sierra On-Line under their Sierra Attractions label.
Edmond Hoyle (1672 – 29 August 1769) [2] was an English writer best known for his works on the rules and play of card games.The phrase "according to Hoyle" (meaning "strictly according to the rules") came into the language as a reflection of his broadly perceived authority on the subject; [2] use of the phrase has since expanded to any appeal to a putative authority.
Card game experts Albert H.Morehead and Geoffrey Matt-Smith, quoting a discussion of Hearts in Culbertson's Hoyle (Greystone Press, New York, 1950), declared that the game of Hearts was "simple as ...
The cards proved such a success that Brown & Bigelow's card division was renamed Hoyle Products in 1975. Hoyle's shell back design is well-recognized, but Hoyle's most iconic figure is its Joker: a colorful jester whose face (repeated atop his scepter) is an optical illusion. The USPC purchased Hoyle Products from Brown & Bigelow in 2001, and ...
Klondike is a card game for one player and the best known and most popular version of the patience or solitaire family, [2] as well as one of the most challenging in widespread play. [3] It has spawned numerous variants including Batsford , Easthaven, King Albert , Thumb and Pouch, Somerset or Usk and Whitehead, as well as the American variants ...