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Noddy (O.F. naudin [1]) also noddie, nodde or knave noddy, is a 16th-century English card game, ancestor of cribbage. It is the oldest identifiable card game with this gaming structure and thus probably also ancestral to the more-complicated 17th-century game of costly colours .
Crapless craps, also known as bastard craps, is a simple version of the original craps game, and is normally played as an online private game. The biggest difference between crapless craps and original craps is that the shooter (person throwing the dice) is at a far greater disadvantage and has a house edge of 5.38%.
"Gonna Roll the Bones" is a fantasy novelette by American writer Fritz Leiber, in which a character plays craps with Death. First published in Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions, it won both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award for Best Novelette.
Hazard is an early English game played with two dice; it was mentioned in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in the 14th century.. Despite its complicated rules, hazard was very popular in the 17th and 18th centuries and was often played for money.
Knave may refer to: A rogue (vagrant), a rascal, deceitful fellow, a dishonest man; Knave (playing card), another name for the jack in card games; Knave (British magazine), a British softcore pornographic magazine published 1968-2015; Knave (American magazine), a short-lived American men's magazine published in 1959
From dice [8] snake eyes is the outcome of rolling the dice in a game of craps and getting only one pip on each die Squirrel [13] Probably named because the hand is "the nuts". Possibly also a reference to the phrase "Even a blind squirrel can find a nut once in a while" [14] Sticks: Looks like sticks [8] Teepees: Looks like teepees [8] Two ...
In playing a particular hand of poker, a freeroll is a situation that arises (usually when only two players remain) before the last card has been dealt, in which one player is guaranteed to at least split the pot with his opponent no matter what the final cards are, but where there is some chance he can win the whole pot if certain final cards are dealt.
In this case, Alice is a knave and Bob is a knight. Alice's statement cannot be true, because a knave admitting to being a knave would be the same as a liar telling the truth that "I am a liar", which is known as the liar paradox. Since Alice is a knave this means she must have been lying about them both being knaves, and so Bob is a knight.