How to Win at Gin Rummy

Humor & Entertainment

Jacoby, Oswald

Puzzles & Games

Henry Holt Co.

A guide to the game of bridge provides advice on bidding and recommends strategies for playing a variety of hands

Improve Your Bridge With Oswald Jacoby: 125 Bridge Hands from the Master

Jacoby, James

McGraw=Hill

Jacoby on Card Games

Describes the rules of bridge, cribbage, euchre, hearts, pinochle, poker, rummy, spades, and solitaire, and suggests winning strategies

Sports & Outdoors

Newspaper Enterprises Assn

Oswald Jacoby on Poker

DOUBLEDAY

Amusing and informative in its approach to solving mathematical bafflers, this treasury of theories, games, puzzles and oddities of all kinds, compiled by one of the world's best card players (Jacoby) and an expert in mathematical recreations (Benson) will delight and fascinate math enthusiasts. Although primarily intended to entertain, the wide variety of puzzles ― ranging from facile curiosities to very difficult intellectual exercises ― will challenge you to keep your mind going full steam. Each of the book's five sections ― "Fun with Numbers," "Fun with Letters," "The Odds: Explorations in Probability," "Where Inference and Reasoning Reign" and "The Answers Are Whole Numbers" ― is made up of approximately 30 problems, with solutions grouped at the end of each section. Math buffs will love testing their puzzle-solving skills on such challenging brainteasers as The Enterprising Snail, Mrs. Crabbe and the Bacon, The Fly and the Bicycles, The Lovesick Cockroaches, The Three Prisoners, Girls Should Live in Brooklyn, Who Was Executed?, Creaker vs. Roadhog, The Crossed Ladders, The Ancient Order of the Greens, and many more. Few of these problems require any advanced mathematical knowledge or prowess. You'll find that simply keeping your wits about you and your logical skills honed are all you need to enjoy a delightful and thought-provoking adventure in recreational mathematics. Foreword. 10 illustrations. 14 tables.

Intriguing Mathematical Problems (Dover Books on Mathematics)

Benson, William H.

Dover Publications

The Backgammon Book

Crawford, John R.

BANTAM BOOKS

Provides game directions and moves, probability analyses, international tournament laws, and stories concerning past and present backgammon players

Crawford, John

Penguin??Books

The Backgammon Book, Hardcover Edition by Oswald Jacoby, The History and Rules of the Game, 224 pages.

The Viking Press

St Martins Pr

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