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Anglian counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and, in 1990, it was played "on a highly organised league basis in and around Norwich". However, by 2018 only two pubs in the Norwich area were regularly hosting Phat drives: the Wherry Inn at
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and Fives taken in tricks. After play, each side counts all counting cards taken in tricks (Aces, Kings, Queens, Jacks, 10s - as shown in the table above) known as the game score. The side with the greater total pegs 8 extra.
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will be the player to the right of the pitcher and the turn to deal and play passes to the left. The trump is determined by the first card led by the pitcher and subsequently players must
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Gazette where "the usual game of Phat is getting popular again" among soldiers of the
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if possible, otherwise may play any card. The trick is taken by the highest card led or by the highest trump if any are played. Each trick-winner leads to the next.
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containing valuable cards which may give an immediate score to the team that wins the trick to which they have been played; these points may be called the
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Five cards was a much earlier Irish game related to the others mentioned. The nickname "five fingers" for the trump 5 was transferred to its offshoot,
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by, for example, "London bus drivers and clippies". This early date is corroborated by
Cassells in his 1918 book on the wartime record of the
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The side with the greater aggregate value, pegs eight holes on the Phat board. Thus, in each deal, there are 88 points to be played for: 80
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452:it has won in tricks on the following basis:
274:in their tricks. There are 88 points in each
191:and may have been derived from it during the
1057:Researches into the History of Playing Cards
611:board of 60 or 90 holes per side. The cards
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440:When play has ended, each side counts the
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770:the team scores 0 each
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1104:French deck card games
1099:Four-player card games
1070:Rules for Phat and Don
1008:Cassells, Joe (1918).
989:Singer (1816), p. 340.
971:Leland (1889), p. 364.
962:Hotten (1864), p. 134.
762:the team scores 0 each
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1053:Singer, Samuel Weller
1020:The Compleat Gamester
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816:he plays establishes
597:standard 52-card pack
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254:, Suffolk.
248:Little Phat
217:Black Watch
100:, Attention
51:Little Phat
1083:Categories
1001:_ (1938).
873:References
863:Spoil Five
730:9, 8, 7, 6
625:Plain Suit
482:Each Queen
446:card point
423:Trump Jack
407:Trump King
57:are trumps
1074:pagat.com
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849:Footnotes
581:Irish Don
569:Dom Pedro
565:Dom Pedro
553:Dom Pedro
549:Don Pedro
545:Welsh Don
490:Each Jack
474:Each King
399:Trump Ace
236:Geldeston
185:all fours
181:card game
161:All fours
134:Clockwise
1055:(1816).
1038:(1992).
1028:(1889).
1018:(1674).
838:counters
623:and the
609:Cribbage
587:Overview
541:Long Don
466:Each Ace
351:suit led
319:Cribbage
252:Rumburgh
244:Big Phat
108:52 cards
47:Big Phat
832:During
828:Scoring
802:pitcher
766:4, 3, 2
758:4, 3, 2
537:Big Don
498:Each 10
357:Scoring
242:10 was
221:Tommies
199:History
142:30 min.
86:Players
70:England
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798:dealer
621:Trumps
605:tricks
461:Score
444:, the
378:Score
343:dealer
264:tricks
258:Object
147:Chance
117:French
98:Memory
94:Skills
66:Origin
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704:Queen
676:Queen
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315:dealt
278:- 80
240:trump
105:Cards
1044:ISBN
902:Phat
834:play
814:suit
810:play
808:and
806:deal
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650:Five
632:Nine
613:rank
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513:muck
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304:suit
300:rank
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280:phat
276:deal
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150:Easy
131:Play
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