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Big and small

Posted by Nicolae on September 19th, 2008 under Dice games Guide, Rules, games
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Big and small is a dice game of pure luck. It is a popular gambling game in China and is still offered in some casinos in Asia, notably in Macau. A variation is the common casino game Sic bo.
Rules
The game is played with three dice. Traditionally, the dice are placed on a [...]

Bau cua ca cop

Posted by Nicolae on September 4th, 2008 under Dice games Guide, games
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Bau cua ca cop is a Vietnamese gambling game using three dice. The six sides of the dice, instead of showing numbers one through six, have pictures of a fish, prawn, crab, rooster, calabash gourd and stag. Players place wagers on a board, betting on which pictures will appear. (The game is [...]

Battle dice

Posted by Nicolae on August 17th, 2008 under Dice games Guide, games
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What it is
Marvel battle dice is a game that uses small figures, which are placed inside dice, and then rolled. There are currently 69 of these figures from the first Set, and can be purchased in battle booster packs, or the starter set.
Purchasing
The figures can be purchased in booster packs (listed above), or [...]

Backgammon rules and strategies

Posted by Nicolae on July 12th, 2008 under Backgammon Guide, Rules, games
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Backgammon is a simple game with deep strategic elements. It does not take long to learn to play, although obscure situations do arise which require careful interpretation of the rules. The playing time for each individual game is short, so it is often played in matches, for example the first to five [...]

Backgammon

Posted by Nicolae on July 11th, 2008 under Backgammon Guide, games
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Backgammon is a board game for two players. Each player has fifteen pieces (checkers) which move between twenty-four triangles (points) according to the roll of two dice. The objective of the game is to be first to bear off, that is, to move all fifteen checkers off the board. The oldest [...]