The Spirit of Fives
An essay by John Reynolds (2015) on why a game with no referee, even at the highest level, teaches honesty, generosity and character.
Fives is a game like no other in the world. What really sets it apart is the absence of a referee: players are the arbiters of their own game, and so they learn to be honest, to declare carries, to refuse and offer lets, and to be generous to their opponents.