The game continues in the same fashion, the winner having the advantage of placing the first card. However, if the second player turns up another Ace or court card in the course of paying to the original penalty card, their payment ceases and the first player must pay to this new card. This changing of penalisation can continue indefinitely. When a single player has all of the cards in the deck in their stack, they have won.įor more than two players, play proceeds clockwise. ^ ' 'I played the game to an end with Estella, and she beggared me.' Great Expectations Chapter 8'.sfn error: no target: CITEREFSmith1755 ( help) ^ ' 'his shop-boy, seated across an empty sugar-tub, was playing a game of 'Beggar-my-neighbor'' The Disgrace to the Family Chapter IV'.^ 'Beat Your Neighbour' in 50 Card Games: 50 Popular Card Games for Hours of Fun.^ a b c Beggar my neighbour, The Guardian.If a player reveals a new penalty card while paying their penalty, the next player around pays the tax. 'Unsolved Problems in Combinatorial Games' (PDF). It was one of Conway’s ‘anti-Hilbert problems’ about 40 years ago, but must have suggested itself to players of the game over the several centuries of its existence. 'Known Historical Beggar-My-Neigbour Records'.
