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SPECULATION

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 632 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SOU-STE
SPECULATION , a round
game
  of
cards
  at which any reasonable number can play. Each player contributes a stake to the pool, the dealer staking
double
 . Three
cards
  are dealt face down-wards to each player; the top card of those left is turned up for trumps. Each player, beginning with the player on the dealer's left, turns up a card; if it is not a trump, or is a
lower
  trump than the trump-card, the next player turns up one of his cards, and so on till a higher trump than the trump-card appears, the values being reckoned as at
whist
 . The holder may sell this card to the highest
bidder
 , or retain it. The turning-up proceeds till a still higher trump is found, but the holder of the
original
  highest does not turn up till his card is beaten. The new card may then be sold. The dealer may not turn up till the trump-card has been beaten. The holder of the highest trump when all the hands have been exposed takes the pool. If the ace of trumps is the trump-card, the dealer takes the pool; if it is turned up during play, the hand is, of course, at an end. Variations of the
game
  allow the
purchase
  of unseen cards or hands, or of the trump-card, even before it is turned up. The cards used in one deal are not dealt again till the whole
pack
  has been gradually dealt out; they are collected and shuffled by the " pone "the player on the dealer's rightto be used when the
pack
  is exhausted.


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