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Liubo (Chinese: 六博; Old Chinese *kruk pˤak “six sticks”) was an ancient Chinese board game for two players. The rules have largely been lost, but it is believed that each player had six game pieces that were moved around the points of a square game board that had a distinctive, symmetrical pattern.
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Sticks & Stones was the 11th game in the series, designed by David Ray, with interior and cover art by Pat Hidy. [3] After Metagaming Concepts went out of business, Hobby Japan acquired the rights to the game and in 1987 published a Japanese-language edition both as a boxed set and as a pullout game in Tactics magazine. [3]
[68] [69] Each player had four dice, and would throw them as part of the game. If all dice had landed on a different number, it was called a Venus or Royal. If all the dice had landed on the number one, then it was known as the dogs or four vultures. If the player threw a dogs then they would put materials in the pot.
Sticks and stones will break our bones But calling names, wont hurt us. [1] The phrase also appeared in 1872, where it is presented as advice in Tappy's Chicks: and Other Links Between Nature and Human Nature, by Mrs. George Cupples. [3] The version used in that work runs: Sticks and stones may break my bones But names will never harm me.
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A pair of such dice hang from her belt, attached with string. Lha-Mo is part of the “eight terrible ones”, defenders of the buddhist faith, and is closely associated with divination, with a strong connection to divination via dice throwing. Lha-Mo's connection to dice throwing is apparent in a story in the Beun-mo bka'i than-yig, a