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The young folk's cyclopædia of games and sports ; (1899)

Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Bostwick, Arthur Elmore, 1860-1942, joint author · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 266

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so narrow, and the four other sideswere numbered i, 3, 4 and 6, With- out the numbers the tali were playedlike our JACK STONES. Dice con-tinued to be played so widely inEurope that in the Middle Ages therewere in France academies wheredice games were taught, and themakers of dice formed a… … in the illustration. The dice used init had no spots at all, and the valueof the throw depended on where theyfell when put into the funnel-shapedtube at the top. Dice made of huckle bones, or toimitate them, are still used in Easterncountries, where the different throwsare given names, as among…

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