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English
The title page of Hoyle's 1758 treatise on backgammon.
Etymology
Named after Edmond Hoyle (1672–1769), an early author on the subject of card gaming.
1902, Gilbert Parker, chapter 11, in Donovan Pasha and Some People of Egypt:
This isn't a country where things are cut and dried, and done according to Hoyle.
1912, Robert W. Service, “The Quitter”, in Rhymes of a Rolling Stone:
When you're lost in the Wild, and you're scared as a child, / And Death looks you bang in the eye, / And you're sore as a boil, it's according to Hoyle / To cock your revolver and . . . die.
