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PLAYING THE CARD GAME HOLLYWOOD EIGHTS

This is the same as the original game of Eights, except that a score is kept in points with pencil and paper. When a hand comes to an end, each loser counts up his cards as follows:

Each 8 ________________________ 50

Each King, Queen, Jack, or 10________ 10

Each Ace _______________________  1

Each other card_____________ pip value

The winner of a hand is given credit on the score for the total of all points lost by all of the losers. For example, suppose you have an 8, a 9, and a 7 when a hand ends. The 8 counts 50 points, the 9 counts 9, and the 7 counts 7. The total is 50 + 9 + 7, or 66 points. In Hollywood scoring, 3 separate game scores are kept. The first time a player wins a hand, his score is credited to him in the first game score. The second time a player wins a hand, he gets credit for his victory both in the first game and also in the second game. He will thus have a larger score in his first game than in his second game score. The third time a player wins, his score is credited to him in all 3 games. He continues to get credit in all 3 games from then on. Sometimes the game runs on until everybody feels like stopping. In this case, the 3 game scores are added whenever everybody wants to stop. The winner is the player with the biggest total for his 3 scores. For example, suppose you win five hands in a row, with scores of 10, 25, 40, 20, and 28 points. Your score would look like this:

A more popular method is to end a game as soon as any player's score reaches 100. When this happens in the first of the 3 games, the other 2 games continue. In the later hands, the score is entered on the 2nd game and on the 3rd game, but no further entry is made in the finished first game. Sooner or later, same player reaches a score of 100 in the 2nd game, and this likewise comes to an end. Eventually, also, some player reaches a score of 100 in the 3rd game, and then all 3 games have ended.The winner is the player with the highest total score when all 3 game scores have been figured out and added up.

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