Pocket Guide to Dice and Dice Games

Name: Pocket Guide to Dice and Dice Games
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ISBN: 9781620871805

ISBN-10: 1620871807

ISBN-13: 9781620871805

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Authors: Keith Souter, Laura Matine

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Dice games have been played for centuries and area staple of the playground, board games, and casinos alike. This pocket guidespans the history of dice and offers clear explanations of popular dice games,including farkle (played since the Middle Ages), Gluckhaus (a German game offortune, played since the medieval era), craps, and Jacks! This guide alsoincludes tips on winning and how to avoid being tricked by loaded or crookeddice. Famous dice players, such as the Roman emperorsAugustus and Caligula, lost money playing dice and quickly stole other people’sto continue their gaming sprees. In the early nineteenth century, fortunescould be won and lost at the roll of a die and it was not only…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Laura Matine is an illustratorbased in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Since graduating from Cambridge School ofArt, Laura has balanced her time between illustrating and running her owndesign company. She is also the illustrator ofnbsp;MedicalMeddlers, Mediums and Magicians: The Victorian Age of Credulity.



Acknowledgements


A Personal Note



The Many Uses of Dice Through the Ages



Roll the Dice - The Early Games



From Knucklebones to Cyber-Dice



High Rollers and Bad Losers - Some Tales of the Dice



Dice Lore



Crooked Dice



Odds and Probability



Dice Magic



Dice Stacking



Dice Divination



Dice Control



Dice Games



Knucklebones (Jacks)



Medieval Games



Craps



A Few More Games Of Risk



Board Games



Dice Chess



Family Dice Games



Backgammon



Role-Playing Games and War-Gaming


After-Dice


Dice Glossary


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