Seven Up (card game)

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Wikipedia: All fours (card game)
All fours is a traditional English card game, once popular in pubs and taverns as well as among the gentry, that flourished as a gambling game until the end of the 19th century. It is a trick-taking card game that was originally designed for two players, but developed variants for more players. According to Charles Cotton, the game originated in Kent, but spread to the whole of England and eventually abroad. It is the eponymous and earliest recorded game of a family that flourished most in 19th century North America and whose progeny include pitch, pedro and cinch, games that even competed with poker and euchre.
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Variants
There was little variation between Charles Cotton’s 1674 rules and the rules in early 20th century English and American rule books. Today, in addition to the classical game that is still widely published, there are four main variants of all fours. In England, the game is thriving in the counties of Lancashire and West Yorkshire where all fours leagues exist, however the rules in the two counties are slightly different. The game is also popular in the Caribbean, especially in Trinidad where it has become their national game. In America, it has largely been superseded by other members of the family, especially Pitch, but all fours also exists in a form known as Seven Up, the American name for all fours played to a target score of 7 points. Detailed rules for the following variants are given at pagat.com.
 
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Seven Up
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Game for 2 to 4 players.
Each round starts with a dealer. This dealer deals each player seven cards in a row then puts the remaning cards in a face down pile in center of players. Then players take cards from the pile and flip them to get an ace to seven of any suit. Then they put them in order (Ace is one, seven is seven) the first player to flip up all cards wins.
   
4 May 1824, Georgia Journal (Milledgeville, GA), pg. 3, col. 4:
Georgia, Clark County, Superior Court, April Term, 1824.
 
THE Grand Jurors for the county of Clark, make the following presentments, viz:
 
We present John Jackson, Joseph Ligon, George W. Scott and Joshua G. Moore, for playing with cards a game called six cards seven up, or all-fours, in the store-house at the place where Larkin L. Baldwin formerly lived, on Saturday, some time in the latter part of February, or the first of March—Elisha Earnest and Wm. Deckin, witnesses.
   
24 November 1829, The Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock, AR), pg. 1, cols. 1-2:
LAWS OF ARKANSAS.
An act to prevent the evil practice of Gaming.
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That if any person shall be guilty of betting any money or any other valuable thing, at or on any game of brag, bluff, seven-up, three-up, twenty-one, thirteen cards the odd trick, forty-five, whist, or at, or on, any other game of cards of any other description, or any other denomination whatsoever, every person so offending, and been convicted thereof, shall pay a fine of not less than five, nor more than twenty dollars, to be paid unto the county treasury, for county purposes; ...