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42: how to play the national game of Texas.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-MAY-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: 42: how to play the national game of Texas.(The Manual: WHAT EVERY TEXAN SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ...)

Article Excerpt
About 120 years ago, two boys from Trapps Springs (now Garner) were caught in a forbidden pastime: playing cards. Their parents burned the offending deck and whipped the disobedient youngsters, but this led William Thomas and Walter Earl to find a loophole in the rules. "In those days Baptists considered card-playing to be the devil's work," says Dennis Roberson, the Fort Worth author of Winning 42: Strategy & Lore of the National Game of Texas. "But dominoes, for some reason, weren't sinful." So the enterprising boys replaced the cards with dominoes, invented a new game similar in style to...

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