Gleek
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A three-player trick-taking game of moderate complexity.
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Reconstructions and Other Discussions
The Compleat Gamester, 1725 edition
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Facsimile
) -- A facsimile of a later (but still useful) edition of Cotton, available on Google Books. (
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Justin's reconstruction of Gleek
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Transcription of Cotgrave's Gleek
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Transcription
) -- A transcription by Imran Ghory (
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Transcription of Gleek from Cotgrave
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Transcription
) -- Transcribed by Imran, via the Wayback Machine. (
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A period-style description of Gleek
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Reconstruction
) -- Justin's writeup of Gleek from the Ace's Boke. This is a modern reconstruction, written in Elizabethan style. (
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Michel's reconstruction of Gleek
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Reconstruction
) -- An in-depth PDF about Gleek (
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Games in *The Academy of Armory*
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Transcription
) -- Transcription by Justin du Coeur and Jeff Singman of the relevant sections from this 1688 book on heraldry, which happens to talk a lot about a lot of stuff. (
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David Parlett's reconstruction of Gleek
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Primary Source Material
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