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 Translation for 'knucklebones' from English to Slovak
NOUN   a knucklebone | knucklebones
SYNO jacks | jackstones | knucklebones
hrač.hry
hra {f} s kostičkami
knucklebones [treated as sg.]
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Translation for 'knucklebones' from English to Slovak

knucklebones [treated as sg.]
hra {f} s kostičkamihrač.hry
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Usage Examples English
  • "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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