NOUN | a knucklebone | knucklebones | |
SYNO | jacks | jackstones | knucklebones |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- "Ludus" was also the word for a board game, examples of which include "ludus latrunculorum" and "ludus duodecim scriptorum", or a game played with knucklebones ("astragali").
- In 2022, a large number of knucklebones were found. Some were used to play games (for example Knucklebones) and others to contact the gods (Astragalomancy). Those that bear writing were in Greek.
- It is theorized that dice developed from the practice of fortune-telling with the talus of hoofed animals, colloquially known as knucklebones.
- Knucklebones is of ancient indeterminate origin and has probably been independently invented several times.
- Colloquially known as "knucklebones", these are approximately tetrahedral.
- Examples include implements, such as a car jack, knucklebones (the game jacks), or the jack in bowls.
- Crazy Bones was inspired by a children's game played in Ancient Greece and Rome called 'Astragal' (Knucklebones), where children played a similar game using sheep's knucklebones.
- This game is a version of knucklebones.
- He also attributes the Lydians with inventing a variety of ancient games, notably knucklebones, claiming the games' rise in popularity to be during a particularly severe drought, where the games afforded the Lydians a psychological reprieve from their troubles.
- At times younger children (both local and American) would wait for the slaughter of the sheep to retrieve knucklebones for a school time game.
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