Meanings
- uncountableA trick-taking card game for four players in which the aim is to avoid taking the first and last tricks and the queen of clubs.
Also called Four Jacks, Stay Away, or Quatre Valets, this game is almost identical with Slobberhannes.
1961, Charles Henry Goren, Goren's Hoyle Encyclopedia of Games: With Official Rules and Pointers on Play, Including the Latest Laws of Contract Bridge, Greystone Press, page 2464 more examples
If, in the same hand, a player wins all three tricks above mentioned, he is said to get Slobberhannes, and must score an extra point for it.
1903, Enquire Within Upon Everything, Houlston and Sons, page 55Slobberhannes is played with a Euchre pack, thirty-two cards, all below the Seven being deleted. The cards rank: A K Q J 10 9 8 7, the ace being the highest both in cutting and in play.
1922, Robert Frederick Foster, Foster's complete Hoyle, Good Press, page 368The splendidly named Slobberhannes uses the same pack, the same deal and the same method of play as Polignac, but here the object is to avoid winning the first trick, the last trick and the trick containing the Queen of clubs.
1990, Gyles Brandreth, The Card Player's Companion, Treasure Press, →ISBNThe reversal of the ordinary condition of play may cause a few blunders at the outset, but a player who knows anything of Whist will soon master the pitfalls of Slobberhannes, and will find himself very well repaid for doing so.
1994, Edmond Hoyle, Lawrence H. Dawson, The Complete Hoyle's Games, Wordsworth Editions, →ISBN, page 210
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