Posts Tagged ‘dice’
Posted by Nicolae on October 21st, 2008 under Dice games Guide
Tags: Button Men, Cheapass Games, dice, game, James Ernest, links, players •
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Button Men is a dice game for two players, invented by James Ernest of Cheapass Games and first released in 1999.Games are short, typically taking less than ten minutes to play. Each player is represented by a button of their choice. Buttons are metal or plastic discs, about 2–2.5 inches (about 5–6.5 [...]
Posted by Nicolae on October 16th, 2008 under Craps, Gambling terminology
Tags: 6, bets, boxcars, Craps, critical failure, dealer, dice, each die, freight train, Freight Train from Hell, game, high side, midnight, probability, rolling, table, terminology, Video •
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Boxcars is the outcome of rolling the dice in a game of craps and getting a 6 on each die. The pair of 6 pips resembles a pair of box cars on a freight train. In modern parlance, it refers to such a roll in any game involving 6 sided dice which are [...]
Posted by Nicolae on September 19th, 2008 under Dice games Guide, Rules, games
Tags: advantage, Asia, banker, bets, big and small, bowl, Casinos, China, dice, gamblers, gambling, game, high points, house, low points, luck, Macau, no skill, plate, players, Rules, Sic bo, table, three, winners, winning, zones •
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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 [...]
Posted by Nicolae on September 9th, 2008 under Casino Guide, Casinos, games
Tags: cards, casino, categories, chips, dice, entertainment, games, gaming machines, house advantage, online casinos, players, random number games, table games, tiles •
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Games available in most casinos are commonly called casino games. In a casino game, the players gamble casino chips on various possible random outcomes or combinations of outcomes. Casino games are available in online casinos, where permitted by law. Casino games can also be played outside of casinos for entertainment purposes, [...]
Posted by Nicolae on September 4th, 2008 under Dice games Guide, games
Tags: Bau cua ca cop, betting, board, calabash gourd, crab, Crown and anchor, dice, dice game, fish, gambling game, pictures, players, prawn, rooster, stag, Tet, Vietnamese, Vietnamese New Year, wagers •
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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 [...]
Posted by Nicolae on August 17th, 2008 under Dice games Guide, games
Tags: battle dice, DC Set, dice, figures, game, links, Marvel Set, purchasing •
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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 [...]
Posted by Nicolae on June 20th, 2008 under Mahjong, games
Tags: Bamboo suit, banker, board, bone tiles, Character suit, Charleston, chips, Circle suit, computer, dealer, dealing, dice, Dragon tiles, equipment, Flower tiles, Game Wind, kards, Mahjong, Mhing, players, playing cards, Prevailing Wind, setting up, tiles, wall, Wind, Wind tiles •
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Basic equipment: chips, tiles and dice.
Mahjong houses provide a convenient venue for Mahjong old hands. This is a typical scene of Mahjong house in Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
Mahjong, can be played either with a set of Mahjong tiles, or less commonly, a set of Mahjong playing cards (sometimes spelled ‘kards’ to [...]
Posted by Nicolae on December 22nd, 2007 under Casinos, Craps, Jokes
Tags: blondes, casino, Craps, dealers, dice, images, Jokes •
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Two bored casino dealers are waiting at a craps table. A very attractive blonde comes in and wants to bet twenty- thousand dollars on a single roll of the dice. She says, “I hope you don’t mind, but I feel much luckier when I’m bottomless.”
With that she strips naked from the [...]