L.NNTERLOO, or Loo, a game at cards, played several ways, whereof we shall only mention two.
first way is this : lift for dealing, and the best put carries it : as many may play as the cards will permit ; five being dealt to each, and then turning up trump. Now, if three, four, five, or six play, they may lay out the threes, fours, fives, sixes, and sevens, to the intent they may not be quickly loved ; or if they would hav,e the loos come fast about, then they are to play with the whole pack.
Having dealt, set up five scores, or chalks. Then ask every one, beginning with the eldest in band, whether they will play, or pass from the benefit of the game : and here it is to be observed, that the cards have the same values as in ho nours. You may play upon every card what sum you please, from a penny to a pound; and if looed, that is, win never a trick, you must lay clown to the stock so much for your five cards, as 3 ou played upon every one of them. Every deal rub off a score, and for every trick you win set op a score, till the first scores are out ; then counting your scores, or the num bers of the tricks you have won, you are to take from the stock in proportion to the value. A flush, or five cards of a
suit, loos all the other hands, and sweeps the boards ; and if there be two flushes, the eldest in hand bath the ad vantage: the knave of clubs, called paam, has this privilege, that he makes a suit with any other cards, and saves the per son who has him from being looed.
The other way is this : the dealer lays clown so much for every card as the com pany please to play for ; and the cards be ing dealt, all must play ; if any be looed, they must each lay down so much as the cards are valued at, for their loo ; and if the person next dealing be looed, he must lay down double the said sum, vi:. one for dealing, and the other for his loo. In case of a loo, the gamesters are asked whether they will play or not, be ginning at the eldest hand ; but if there is no loo, they must all play as at first ; and this necessity they justly call force.
If there be never a loo, the money may be divided by the gamesters, according to the number of their tricks, or left till one be looed, as they shall judge proper.