Dawn Adams

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Marti writes:
http://store5.yimg.com/I/kidsurplus_1780_210925536

This picture shows how the game pegs flip over... you could even make
something that worked the same purpose, if you were so inclined.
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We just use a couple of dice and pull two sets of Ace to ten from a card deck to play.

Dawn (in NS)


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In a message dated 2/27/04 9:32:34 AM, marti@... writes:

<< http://store5.yimg.com/I/kidsurplus_1780_210925536

This picture shows how the game pegs flip over... you could even make
something that worked the same purpose, if you were so inclined. >>

It's a two-player shut-the-box! But that's okay/

Shut the box is a pub game, a gambling game, called sometimes "shut the
drawer."

Sandra

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Shut the box is a two-player game too, but you take turns. Sorry, should've
have implied it wasn't.

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http://www.tradgames.org.uk/games/Shut-The-Box.htm

The kids might be interested in the history of the game, and if you go to
google.com and put in
shut the box history
you can see lots more, and pictures.

But this site said:

History

It's not known for sure where Shut the box originated.  Most theories point
to a source in Northern France and give Normandy or the Channel Islands as the
specific location.  It appears that it has been played in this region for at
least two hundred years and is a game popular with sailors and fishermen. 
There is only evidence for the game in England from the middle of the twentieth
century, and since most games of a similar ilk spawned references in a variety
of literature, this would seem to be a good indication that it did not
originate in that country.  In fact, Timothy Finn in his "Pub Games of England" says
that that the game was brought to the South of England from the Channel Islands
in 1958 by a Mr. 'Chalky' Towbridge.  Apparently the game has several names,
one of which is Canoga and one unconfirmed rumour claims that Shut the Box is
also common in Zambia!

An old pub gambling favourite, Shut the Box uses two dice and a special
wooden playing tray. The tray features the numbers 1 - 9 in a row,
each of which has a hinged or sliding cover.  A turn involves repeatedly
throwing the dice and shutting or covering a number or pair of numbers every
throw.  The turn ends when no numbers can be covered upon the throw of the dice at
whicbox" which results in the best possible score of zero.

And it lists pubs in England where there is league play!

Sandra