Hoyle: Official Book of Games - Volume 1

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Description

Play six different card games (Crazy Eights, Old Maid, Hearts, Gin Rummy, Cribbage, and Klondike Solitaire) against 0-3 computer opponents (as appropriate for each game).

There are 18 available computer opponents, including characters from other Sierra games (Colonel Henry Dijon, Shelly LeBlanc, Officer Sonny Bonds, Larry Laffer, King Graham, Roger Wilco and Princess Rosella), Sierra employees (Warren Schwader and Jerry Moore) and their children, and others. The different opponents play the different games at different skill levels, and are broken up into "Serious" and "Not-So-Serious" categories. All the opponents will taunt you (in character) as you play (though you can turn off in-game conversation if it's too distracting).

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Alternate Titles

• "Hoyle's Book of Games: Volume One" -- US Back Cover title
• "Hoyle's Book of Games" -- US media title
• "Hoyle: Book of Games - Volume I" -- Alternate US media title

Part of the Following Groups

• Game Engine: Sierra's Creative Interpreter (SCI)
• Genre: Card / Tile game - Crazy Eights
• Genre: Card / Tile game - Cribbage
• Genre: Card / Tile game - Rummy
• Genre: Card / Tile game - Solitaire / Patience
• Hoyle licensees

User Reviews

A neat collection of board games.

DOS

Tomer Gabel (4646)

Critic Reviews

The DOS Spirit	DOS	Dec 06, 2010	5 out of 6	83
Génération 4	Amiga	Apr, 1990	74 out of 100	74
ST Format	Atari ST	Nov, 1990	73 out of 100	73
Atari ST User	Atari ST	Oct, 1990	69 out of 100	69
The Games Machine (UK)	DOS	Dec, 1989	67 out of 100	67
Power Play	Amiga	May, 1990	62 out of 100	62
Micro News	Amiga	May, 1990		50
Amiga Joker	Amiga	Mar, 1990	43 out of 100	43
ST Format	Atari ST	Dec, 1993	27 out of 100	27
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	DOS	Jan, 1990	Unscored	Unscored

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
version numbers / differences	3	Chilly Willy (3) Jul 07, 2016

Trivia

Conversations

If a running game is left alone for a while, the computer players will start talking amongst themselves. Some of the conversations are quite amusing. If Roger Wilco and King Graham are two of the players, one of the things that they will talk about is Roger's crash landing in the King's Quest Castle moat in Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter.