NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Enquirer wants to know if the player of the last eard at oribbage—counting only up to 30—can score one. The question, as put, involves a nice point of distinction. There is no “ last card ” mfee-card, as is understood in six-card ciibbage. With five ca’-ds, whether all the cards in a hand are played or not, and thirty-one be not made, one poiut is certainly scored by the last player, not (as in six cards) because he played the last card, but inasmuch as he was nearer to making 31 than his opponent. Enquirer should have stated his case more plainly.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 317, 20 October 1875, Page 2
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103NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 317, 20 October 1875, Page 2
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