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Named after Edmond Hoyle (1672–1769), an early author on the subject of card gaming.

(idiomatic) In strict accordance with the rules, especially of card games; in the proper or expected manner.
- This isn't a country where things are cut and dried, and done according to Hoyle. 1902, Gilbert Parker, chapter 11, in Donovan Pasha and Some People of Egypt:
- The opening round of the Presidents' Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament went according to Hoyle. 2007 February 22, Phil Axelrod, “District Spotlight: PAC men's basketball follows form”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, retrieved 08 Aug 2008:
- To be perfectly honest, I wasn't sure he was playing strictly according to Hoyle, but we'll leave it, since the poor chap's missing. 2013 December 25, Julian Fellowes, “The London Season”, in Downton Abbey, spoken by Terence Sampson (Patrick Kennedy):
- When you're lost in the Wild, and you're scared as a child, / And Death looks you bang in the eye, / And you're sore as a boil, it's according to Hoyle / To cock your revolver and . . . die. 1912, Robert W. Service, “The Quitter”, in Rhymes of a Rolling Stone:

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