Blind Hookey , also known as Dutch Bank , Banker and Broker and Honest John , is a simple game of chance using playing cards . The game is popular in Germany where it is known as Häufeln , Bockspiel or Päckchen wenden , after the little packets of cards used.
2-494: Häufeln is recorded as early as 1773 as a card game in which there are as many piles ( Häufeln ) as players. The name Blind Hookey appears in 1824 in Gallignani's Messenger . In 1835, Häufeln , is described as "a pernicious game of chance, similar to Pharo ." But it was also played as a family game for e.g. nuts. Either a 52-card, French-suited pack is used or a 32-card French- or German-suited pack. The banker shuffles, offers
4-430: The cards for cutting, places any number of piles of cards face down on the table and keeps one for himself, selected by the punters . The punters then bet on the rest. The bottom cards in the piles decide who wins and loses: If the lowest card in a pile is higher than the banker's card, the punter wins 1:1; if the bottom card is equal or lower in rank, the banker wins. Winning and losing are decided by two cards: Thus
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