Slobberhannes

English Noun - A 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. en 1903 Enquire Within Upon Everything https://books.google.com/books?id=HapbAAAAMAAJ&q=slobberhannes https://archive.org/details/enquirewithinup00librgoog/page/n58/mode/2up 55 Houlston and Sons 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. en 1922 Robert Frederick Foster Foster's complete Hoyle https://books.google.com/books?id=82nbIeJd0XQC&q=slobberhannes 368 Good Press Slobberhannes 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. en 1961 Charles Henry Goren Goren's Hoyle Encyclopedia of Games: With Official Rules and Pointers on Play, Including the Latest Laws of Contract Bridge https://books.google.com/books?id=BlgYAAAAIAAJ&q=slobberhannes 246 Greystone Press Also called Four Jacks, Stay Away, or Quatre Valets, this game is almost identical with Slobberhannes. en 1990 Gyles Brandreth The Card Player's Companion https://books.google.com/books?id=pkO56BuewJwC&q=slobberhannes 9781850514299 Treasure Press The 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. en 1994 Edmond Hoyle; Lawrence H. Dawson The Complete Hoyle's Games https://books.google.com/books?id=N_ZH0bB0-YIC&pg=PA210 9781853263163 210 Wordsworth Editions The 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.