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Beggar-My-Neighbour
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or A simple card-game. An ordinary pack is divided equally between two players, and the cards are held with the backs upwards. The first player lays down his top card face up, and the opponent plays his top card on it, and this goes on alternately as long as no court-card appears; but if either player turns up a court-card, his opponent has to play four ordinary cards to an ace, three to a king, two to a queen, one to a knave, and when he has done so the other player takes all the cards on the table and places them under his pack; if, however, in the course of this playing to a court-card, another court-card turns up, the adversary has in turn to play to this, and as long as neither has played a full number of ordinary cards to any court-card the trick continues. The player who gets all the cards into his hand is the winner.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Beggar-My-Neighbour'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/b/beggar-my-neighbour.html. 1910.
