The British name for the game of checkers. The narrator mentions draughts as an example of a game that makes use of an analytical mind.
A four-person card game, similar to Backgammon. The narrator compares playing card games like whist to using the analytical powers of the human mind.
Edmund Hoyle (1672-1769) published his first Short Treatise on the Game of Whist in 1742,.....
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