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A painting entitled, "Kick-up at the Hazard Table" by Thomas Rowlandson.

A Regency Primer on How to Play Hazard

ByKristen Koster

If you’ve ever come across the phrase “She was at sixes and sevens” in a historical novel and wondered what it meant, you may be surprised to learn it originated from the game of Hazard and generally is used to mean in a state of chaos or agitation. This popular dicing game has been around…

A Regency Primer on How to Play Whist

A Regency Primer on How to Play Whist

ByKristen Koster

Many historical romance novels feature card rooms at balls, clubs or dinner parties and gaming hells where rakes wager over the turn of a card or toss of a dice. Many games that are no longer familiar to us are rattled off: hazard, piquet, faro, and whist. Often, the games chosen have meaning for the…