A quotation from Hoyle

Edmond Hoyle (1672-1769) Writer, esp. of card game rules and play.
“Mr. Hoyle’s Game at Whist: Twenty-Four Short Rules for Learners,” No. 12, Hoyle’s Games Improved (1790 ed.) [ed. Charles Jones]

More info about this quote: wist.info/hoyle-edmond/18503/

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The name whist may come from an old English word meaning calm, quiet, and attentiveness, which was common in the 17th century. The modern word wistful comes from the same root. 10 things you didn't know about the game of whist.

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2025/08/29-august-whist.html

#Whist #CardGames

I have now researched, for direct and indirect plot reasons:
- the entire history of Hampton Court Palace
- Various larger than life courtiers over about 200 years
- The Civil War, the Napoleonic Wars, the first Opium War
- The Townsend-Farquar family
- Several murders, several suicides
- Penang, Mauritius, and the British colonisation thereof
- Nineteenth century gardening
- Nineteenth century daguerreotypes

and have further created spreadsheets across my MC's entire lifespan of who was living in which palace apartment when, and decided if they would have been friends, frenemies, or enemies.

Me: I am finally ready to start my new WIP! 🎉

First chapter, first scene: they're playing whist. How do you play whist?

Me: FUCK!

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#AmWriting #AmResearching #Whist

A strange memory came to me today, of being expelled from the #bridge club at school for playing #Whist. I'm trying to remember how we got caught; presumably it was because none of us was playing a dummy hand.

#cards

Unsere #Sommerlektüre in diesem Jahr dreht sich ganz und gar ums #Spielen. Unterschiedliche Autoren betrachten das Spiel aus den verschiedensten Blickwinkeln.
#Pokémon, #Whist, #Ballett und #Theater ... alles ist dabei.

#writerslife #sammelband #kulturgeschichten
https://www.verlag.der-leiermann.com/kulturgeschichten-rund-ums-spiel/