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Skittle Pool is pool with three balls and twelve little skittles,
placed in order round the table. A stake is determined on, and a price
paid out of the pool for every skittle knocked over after striking a
ball. An amusing game for a party of ladies and gentlemen.

2590. Penny Pot.

Penny Pot is pool without restriction as to the number of lives,
played by any number of players, who pay a penny each to the taker of
every life or winning hazard. For the scientific principles of
billiards, and the full rules of the several games played on the
billiard-table, the reader is referred to the excellent little
shilling volume, "Billiards Made Easy,"[1] and the more elaborate
treatise by Captain Crawley.

[Footnote 1: _Billiards made Easy_. With the scientific Principles of
the Spot-stroke, and the Side-stroke, familiarly explained: By Winning
Hazard. Illustrated by practical diagrams. With a chapter on
Bagatelle: Houlston and Sons.]

2591. Boss; or the Fifteen Puzzle.

Apparently simple, this game is really difficult of solution, Fifteen
cubes of wood, severally marked from I to 15, are placed indifferently
in a box made to hold sixteen; thus:

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| 9 | 11 | 3 | 7 | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
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|------+------+------+------| |------+------+------+------|
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| 8 | 14 | 10 | 15 | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
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|------+------+------+------| |------+------+------+------|
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| 6 | 12 | 13 | 2 | | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
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|------+------+------+------| |------+------+------+------|
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| 5 | 1 | 4 | | | 13 | 14 | 15 | |
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The puzzle consists in sliding the cubes from