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/ Genres / Strategy / Hoyle: Official Book of Games - Volume 1 / Play in browser

Hoyle: Official Book of Games - Volume 1 - Play Online

DOS - 1989
Also available on: Amiga - Atari ST - Mac

For small DOS games like Hoyle: Official Book of Games - Volume 1, you can play online immediately with your browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, Opera...). This feature is experimental, the game may not work properly.

Warning: game save should work, but you should try it early! Also, be careful to select the right game executable in the list above.

Comments and reviews

Garry 30 Sep. 2026

What a total CROCK, played cribbage and the higher up you go in terms of difficultly determines the kind of cards you will be dealt.

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Jay 30 Sep. 2026

The problem with this, is when you play on "expert" mode, what it means is the deck is literally stacked against you. Beware.

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Gregory 07 Jan. 2023

@Wolverine
You have to type hoyle and press enter

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pops 12 Jan. 2018

To get this to work switch the GAME EXECUTABLE to SCIV.EXE or type SCIV.EXE that into the command prompt if you already launched it

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Wolverine 02 Dec. 2017

It doesn't work. Just shows the dosbox logo and then goes to the command prompt. :(

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