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Encyclopedia Britannica



ALL FOURS

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 695 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: AJA-ALL
ALL FOURS , a card game (known also in America as Seven Up, Old Sledge or High-Low-
Jack
 ) usually played by two players, though four may play. A full
pack
  is used and each player receives seven counters. Four points can be scored, one each for high, the highest trump out, for low, the lowest trump dealt, for
Jack
 , the
knave
  of trumps, and for game, the
majority
  of pips in the
cards
  of the tricks that a player has won. Ace
counts
  4, King 3, Queen 2,
Knave
  1, and ten 10 points. Low is scored by the person to whom it is dealt; High of course wins a
trick
 ; Jack is scored by the player who finally has it among his tricks. If Jack is turned up the dealer scores the point. A player who plays a high or low trump is entitled to ask if they are High or Low. The game is 10 or 11 points. Six
cards
  are dealt to each, the thirteenth being turned up for trumps. The non-dealer may propose or beg if he does not like his hand. If the dealer refuses the
elder
  hand scores a point; if he consents he gives and takes three more cards, the seventh being turned up for trumps, which must be of a different suit from the
original
  trump card; otherwise six more cards are dealt out, and so on till a fresh trump suit appears. The non-dealer then leads; the other must trump or follow suit, or forfeit a point. Jack may be played to any
trick
 . Each pair of cards is a trick, and is collected by the winner. A fresh deal may be claimed if the dealer exposes one of his adversary's cards, or if he gives himself or his adversary too few or too many. In that
case
  the error must be discovered before a card is played (see also


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