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To begin, four corners (or general areas) of the room are marked from the numbers one to four. One player is designated to be "It," or the "counter." This player sits in the middle of the room and closes their eyes, or exits the room, and counts to ten. The remaining players choose any one of the corners and quietly go and stand in that area.
It is so called because of the pile of four cards at the corners of the tableau. The version discussed in this article is the more prevalent version printed in two books: Card Games for One by Peter Arnold and The Complete Book of Solitaire and Patience Games by Albert Morehead and Geoffrey Mott-Smith .
The offense typically would seek to score, but only on extremely safe shots. [2] The players in the corners might try to make backdoor cuts, or the point guard could drive the lane. Sometimes, one team would run the four corners offense throughout a game to reduce the number of possessions, in hopes of being able to defeat a superior opponent. [4]
The game may be played until someone reaches a point threshold, and that player is out of the game. The game ends when all but one player is out. Scoring systems may vary, but a common one is face cards being worth 2 points (except Kings, which are worth 10), and other cards being worth one point.
Just know there can be various versions of scoring; check out one set of rules from Bicycle Cards. And feel free to sip a rum drink in tribute as you play. Oliver Rossi - Getty Images
Four square dates to at least the 1950s. A game called four square is mentioned in newspapers in the northeastern United States at least as far back as the 1950s, but the rules are not explained. [3] [4] A 1953 teacher's manual describes four square with the same rules used today. [5] However, it is possible this game could have evolved from ...
Score: 4 points if achieved with singletons (two different die scores) or 6 points with a doublet. Move: The rules on the occupation of resting corners prohibit actually making this move, so it is a 'force jan'. Contre-jan de deux tables Feat: same as jan de deux tables but the opponent occupies his rest corner.
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