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Hand: Hot or Cold
Volume 1, entries 1984. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → HANDS: MAGIC HELPERS. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 1984
If you are getting into the game, you can find out if the other fellow has a bag?) Yessuh, yo' kin find out if he got one. Well, yo' see de way yo' find it out, yo' see yores won't work, see. See, yores gen'ly [generally] gits hot in yore pocket - dat's when yo' tell when tuh pass or anything. But long as it stay cool, well, yo' kin tell anothah man got one bettah den yores.
(And there is nothing you can do about it?)
No suh, den [than] if yo' jis' git up an' leave de game or bet behin' him.
The source says yores gets hot in a pocket; no hand identification, measured temperature or working result is established.