Rook Followup

Rook Followup

In response to my page about Rook, I got this response in April 2007: Greetings, I’m writing regarding the rules for Rook on your web page. I have been
researching this game, and summarized the main official variations. This
information may be useful to you - you can check out my following posts
(under the handle: EndersGame). As far as I can tell, the variation you
described is called “Buckeye”, and is so described in the book Rook in a
Book published by Winning Moves. Playing with regular playing cards
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/160917 Official Rules For Four-Player Partnership Rook
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/161214 These posts may also be of interest: Reflections on whether or not to use the Rook card
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/161213 Relationship between Rook and 200 (Deux Cents)?
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/160892 In short, I’ve discovered that there are two official variants for
four-player partnership Rook:

  1. Kentucky Discard (Tournament Rules)
  2. Regular Partnership (Original Game)
    There is also a third popular way of playing:
  3. 1-High Partnership
    Most variants are based on these official methods of playing:
  4. Variants based on Kentucky Discard (Tournament Rules): Kentucky Discard
    (Original Rules), The Red 1, Buckeye, 200 (Deux Cents)
  5. Variants based on Regular Partnership (Original Game): Dixie, Display,
    Boston As for versions of the game played with regular playing cards, there are
    two main versions popularly played:
  6. 200 (Deux Cents) - based on Kentucky Discard
  7. Princeton Rules - based on 1-High Partnership But I won’t deluge you with two much information in this email message,
    instead I humbly refer you to the first two thread links above for more
    info. I have spent quite some time analyzing the official rules, and the
    different variations described online, and I am quite confident that the
    analysis in my posts in the forum is quite accurate and I hope it will be
    helpful to you and perhaps help the content you have produced become more
    comprehensive and complete:
    http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/160917
    http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/161214 I’d welcome your comment or feedback, and feel free to make use of this
    information in your work, whether website or book. Sincerely,
    Richard