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Posted By: Daniel Murphy In Response To: Midboard: an alternate term for "opponent's outer board" (Nack Ballard)
Date: Friday, 2 December 2011, at 6:31 p.m.
From The New Hoyle, containing easy rules for playing the Games of Whist, London: G. Walker, 1817.
This game is played by two persons, upon a table divided into two parts, and marked with twenty-four lines, alternately black and white.If you determine to play into the right-hand table, you must place two men upon the ace-point in your adversary's table, five upon the six point in the opposite table; three upon the five, or cinque-point in the hithermost table, and five on the six-point in your own table. These men, in playing, are all to be brought round into your own table and the number of points you are to play each time is determined by the number thrown with a pair of dice.The first best throw upon the dice is aces as it stops the six-point in the outer table, and secures the five or cinque-point in your own, by which your adversary cannot take his two men from your ace-point, either with fours, fives, sixes, five and four, six and four, or six and five....Suppose your tables are made up, and that you have taken up one of your adversary's men; and suppose that your adversary has so many men abroad as require three throws to put them in his tables;In sum:
"table" - the entire board, or any of the four quadrants
"your table" or "your tables" (plural) - your home board
"adversary's table" - opponent's home board
"outer table" - either of the two quadrants that are not home boards
"make up your tables" - make a full prime in your home board
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