All-Fours is a card game known in America as Old Sledge, or Seven Up. It is usually played by two players, althought there is a 4 player variant, with the full pack of fifty-two cards, which rank in play as at Whist, the ace being the highest, and the twothe lowest. The game is to seven points with two players and 14 points when played with four players.
The game is very popular in Blackburn, in Lancashire, England, where it is traditionally played in pubs . Even at the present time it is still organised into pub teams who play on Sunday nights. Nobody is quite sure how long this game has been played in Blackburn, but it has been a fixture in pubs there for a long time.
The English folk-song "A Game of Cards" makes sexual innuendo out of a game of all-fours. The song has been recorded by Maddy Prior and June Tabor on their 1976 Silly Sisters album, and by Kate Rusby on her 2005 The Girl Who Couldn't Fly album.
The game has also been exported to the island nation of the Republic...
