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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.
The company was founded in Cincinnati in 1867 as Russell, Morgan & Co. and originally specialized in printing posters for traveling circuses. [3] [4] The company took its name from partners A. O. Russell and Robert J. Morgan, who together with James M. Armstrong and John F. Robinson Jr. purchased the Enquirer Job Printing Rooms division of the newspaper The Cincinnati Enquirer. [5]
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
At one point, Brown & Bigelow originally produced the Hoyle line of playing cards, in 1927. The Hoyle brand became so popular that the B&B group eventually printed all cards under the Hoyle name. All Hoyle brand playing cards (including the "Shell Back", Maverick, and Delta series cards) were acquired from B&B in a 2001 trade deal by the United ...
Edmond Hoyle (1672–1769), compiler of rules of card games; Sir Fred Hoyle (1915–2001), British astronomer and science fiction writer; Geoff Hoyle (born 1945), British actor; Geoffrey Hoyle (born 1942), English science fiction writer, son of Sir Fred Hoyle; Henry Hoyle (1852–1926), Australian politician and rugby league football administrator
Jay Semerad of allgame stated that the game's lack of difficulty settings and tough AI can result in players struggling to win against the computer, adding that Hoyles' books are a better reference for players wishing to learn how to play than the game's menus. He also stated, "Despite its faults, Hoyle Card Games is a good addition to any card ...
Officers of the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry playing cards in front of tents. Petersburg, Virginia, August 1864. In the 1937 edition of Foster's Complete Hoyle, R. F. Foster wrote: "the game of poker, as first played in the United States, five cards to each player from a twenty-card pack, is undoubtedly the Persian game of As-Nas."
Foster's Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of Games (1909) Foster, Robert Frederick: Pocket Laws of Poker (1910) Cooncan (Conquián): A Game of Cards also Called "Rum" (NY: Frederick A. Stokes, 1913), OCLC 4895626; full-text reproduction at rummy-games.com (now in the public domain); 2007 print edition, ISBN 0-548-31771-2