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Rolling a 4, 6, 8, 10 with a pair of the same number. Sometimes also known as "hard six", "hard eight", et cetera hi-lo a single roll bet for 2 or 12 hi-lo-yo a single roll bet for 2, 11, or 12 high A bet on or roll of 12, also see boxcars hop A single roll bet for a specific combination of dice to come out. Pays 15:1 for easy ways and 30:1 for ...
Scribbage (also marketed as Ad-Lib Crossword Clues) is a classic dice word game published in 1959 by the E.S. Lowe Company. Thirteen dice are rolled which have various letters on each side. Each letter is given a point value depending on its frequency in the English language. A timer is flipped and the player has to put the dice into words ...
[5]: 7–8 Hazard allows the dice shooter to choose any number from five to nine as their "main" number; [6]: 168 in a pamphlet published in 1933, [7] Edward Tinker claimed that Marigny simplified the game by making the main always seven, [5] which is the mathematically optimal choice, i.e., the choice with the lowest disadvantage for the shooter.
Boxcars (slang), a roll of two dice showing six pips on each die; Double six (dominoes), a domino set with a maximum of six pips on each tile end, or the individual domino that has six pips on both ends; In pai gow (Chinese dominoes), the Teen tile, a tile with six pips of each color
Boxcar (game), alternative name of the dice game Dice 10000; Boxcars (slang), in dice games, a pair of sixes; Boxcar averager, an electronic test device; Boxcar Books, a bookstore in Bloomington, Indiana, U.S. Boxcar Comics, a webcomic collective; The Boxcar Children, a series of children's books; Boxcar function, a mathematical function
Victoria Station was made up of a series of bright red boxcars parked end-to-end. One sat in the busy River Quay district near 3rd and Delaware streets from 1973 to 1985, another opened later at ...
Forty-and-Eight boxcars (French: Quarante et huit), commonly referred to as Forty-and-Eights, were types of French boxcars (voiture) used by the French Army and Wehrmacht. British and American troops were transported to the Western Front in the boxcars marked with "40-8" to denote their capacity: 40 men or 8 horses.
From the 1950s onward, the general service (meaning used for a wide variety of shipments) boxcar fleet owned by American railroads significantly shrank. From a starting point of approximately 780,000 boxcars in the middle of the 1950s, boxcar inventory shrank to 637,000 by 1960 and 329,000 in 1973, a more than 50 percent decrease.