#gambling dice games

[frogshunnedshadows]

Greco-Roman polyhedral dice.

[nemfrog]

Dice on a table. Food for the mind, or, A new riddle-book. 19th century.

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[akkivee]

Gambling and casinos are extremely illlegal in Japan so I always wonder, in ghe H era, did Chuuohku abolish those laws? How is it possible that Dice is alwaya gambling..?? Or that his casino-like visuals don't paint him as a negative presence amongst civillians?

gambling is still illegal in chuuoku’s japan!!! chapter 7 in the fpmtr➕ manga talks about underground casinos, the government cracking down them and even alludes to some dice mysteries lol

pachinko parlours are a legal grey area in japan tho. it’s like how gacha games are very much so gambling but are a huge profitable industry, a lot of people do it lol. they’re regarded as amusement centres in japan and get around the law that would normally prohibit them giving cash prizes by offering vouchers winners can take to an outside building that they can pretend is unaffiliated with the parlour lmao

a posse stan can correct me on this, but i think dice swore off underground casinos and instead uses the ones that fall in line with government regulations in order to maintain that grey legality. so he’s just a regular old pachinko addict lol here’s a pachinko place he went to and probably the irl place it’s based off of lol

[beasttrash]

even or odd?

[leo-fie]

You know that scene in movies where one character get's invited to a gambling game and get's asked if they know the rules? And they always kinda do. But that's not how games work. There's hundreds of variations of poker, of dice games, of checkers, etc. There is no reason to assume two people from different backgrounds and/or places play with the same ruleset.

Just once I want the characters in that scene to sit down and try to agree on the rules like family board game night trying to agree if you can stack +2s in Uno.

[witchblade]

and play knucklebones against various guys

[ourladyofomega]

Two translucent red dice.

📸  source: Getty

[putoutallthestars]

GONG, Steph Richards

🎲🎲 Dice roll: to gamble or take a chance on something or someone

[letstalkbeautyuk]

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[missacensnakelover]

The Gangreen Gang all enjoying coffee and a casino here!

Made by me! (x)

[fluffybunny35]

I think I finally figured out how to describe dragons's dogma, because it's not a game/series that fits the "good/bad" dichotomy that we like to use, but instead it's designed for a specific type of player. Namely, the type of player that just wants to go with the flow, letting the game take the lead and is there to tag along. If you try to go in with preconceptions of what you want (an epic fantasy story, empowering action combat, meaningful story decisions, etc) you're going to be disappointed, because the game is more concerned with individual moments than an overarching, cohesive experience. Like yes, you'll climb up the back of a cyclops to stab it in the eye, but then you'll get back to town, and have to do a janky stealth mission through a castle, before being asked by a friend to go for a stroll on the beach.

The best series to compare it to (and one that targets the same type of player) is the Yakuza series, where you'll go from a dramatic duel against your old boss one minute to playing mahjong the next. You don't play Yakuza for a cohesive experience, but instead to just live in whatever moment the game throws at you. And while Dragon's Dogma doesn't add gameplay variety through mini games like the Yakuza series, it does still strive for tonal variety in several other ways.

The earlier Yakuza games also didn't fit the "good/bad" dichotomy, they were beloved by a few, but for most people they were just confused and/or bored. At this point, Yakuza IS considered a good game series, but that didn't really happen until Like a Dragon, with Yakuza 0 acting as a pivotal moment to lead there. And I don't think Dragons Dogma 2 is Like a Dragon. It could prove to be a turning point like Yakuza 0, but we won't see that until the next entry (assuming there is one). But they should definitely add mahjong to Dragons Dogma 3.

[jansengs]

(via "Kings of dice - Thats How I Roll - Gambling art - Gambling graphic" Long T-Shirt for Sale by JansenGS)

[asoiafreadthru]

A Game of Thrones, Jon III

He had seen little of the dwarf since their journey ended.

As the queen’s own brother, Tyrion Lannister had been an honored guest of the Night’s Watch.

The Lord Commander had given him rooms in the King’s Tower—so called, though no king had visited it for a hundred years.

Lannister dined at Mormont’s table and spent his days riding the Wall and his nights dicing and drinking with Ser Alliser and Bowen Marsh and the other high officers.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"City Honeycombed With Gambling Is Pastor's Statement," Windsor Record. February 17, 1913. Page 1. ---- Rev. F. W. Hollinrake, Methodist Clergyman, Adds That He Believes Police Know About It. ---- DECLARES SOME CIGAR STORES MERLLY BLUFFS ---- Alleged That Officers Tip Off Proprietors When "Chief is on the Beat" - Secret Spring Used. ---- "Windsor is honeycombed with gambling and I believe the police know about it." This was the concluding remark made by the Rev. F.. W. Hollinrake of the Central Methodist church at the Sunday evening service in discussing the gambling evil, which he states, exists in this city.

In his sermon he termed gambling a source of so-called pleasure for which the participants received no gain for what they paid. He termed the gambler a leach, a blood-sucker and a thief in every sense of the word and said although it was very hard to detect, it seemed to go on unmolested, with the proprietor pocketing his ill-gotten gains.

He read an article from a Toronto paper, in which in an interview a reporter of that paper had with the father of a young man who had been convicted and fined for being a common gambler, the man said that his son had got his start in a small cigar store or pool room opposite the paper office in Toronto.

"Change the towns and it sounds mighty like Windsor," remarked the pastor.

The interview further stated that in Toronto the pool rooms and cigar stores were the greatest offenders. Here again the pastor remarked it sounded like Windsor.

Police Powerless He stated that there were men in their graves today who would be living and following their regular line of occupation, were it not for these gambling joints. He said that in many homes in Windsor there were widows weeping, children going without clothing and fire all because the police could not stop the practice.

"I am told that there are places in this city where a man who has just received his weekly or fortnightly or monthly pay envelope and goes into it and when he comes out his money is gone. He is forced to go home to a broken-hearted wife and mother, waiting for this money to buy the children clothing, pay the grocery bill or pay the rent of the house that sheltered them.

"The proprietors of these places will ride to their beautiful home in their automobiles. There is no sign of want. The money that they асcumulate through the gambling curse should be going to help some family where the father has lost it by playing poker or some other game.

Are Gifts Received? "I have been informed that policemen go into cigar stores and ask for fifty cents worth of cigars, and after laying their money on the showcase, a bluff is made at the cash register and the money is handed back to them. These policemen, if they wanted to, could look through an open door and see the gambling tables and other paraphernalia in the rooms for the use of the gamblers, but they don't do it for some reason.

"Some places that sell cigars are merely bluffs. The amount of business they do would not give returns enough to pay the salary of the clerk who is employed. I am further informed that a policeman will be in one of these places and will say to the clerk or proprietor, 'Keep quiet tonight, the chief is on the beat.

"If I were to go around to one of these places a spring would be touch- ed behind the counter, and all the men would disappear into another room and the place would take on the appearance of a place in mourning."

Take Only Big Bets. The pastor told the congregation that in the city there existed places where books were kept where a man could go in and play any horse he liked at any of the different race tracks in the country. He referred to one as a rich man's place where the man with the little bet need not seek admittance. Only the man with a bet from $100 to $1000 need apply.

He stated that some of these places in their efforts to keep the game going, they went so far as to furnish lunches to the players, so that they would not have to go out to eat. An article from a Cleveland paper was read in which the chief of police of that city had ordered all gamblers out of the city and a large number of them moved away. Those who remained in the city were raided and all their tables and other devices. were broken up.

"Could not the chief of police in this city do the same?" asked the pastor.

Mr. Hollinrake stated that in the city at almost every cigar store, men were allowed to shake dice for cigars every day except Sunday. He was informed that one place was kept going on the Sabbath as well as week days. He told of a man who had conducted a place in Windsor for over fifteen years and had been raided only once. He said he was informed that some of the places were protected and the man who told him said the police force was "rotten".

Mr. Hollinrake said he asked the man, "What about the commission?" "They are the same," replied the man.

Distributes the Blame. He stated that he did not blame the police altogether, saying that if mothers and fathers of children children would stay at home and teach their children something about the way they should live instead of expecting a public or Sunday school teacher to do it, conditions could be bettered.

"In conclusion," he said, "let some of the clubs, societies and influential business men of the city be brave enough to start a movement to run these places out of the city and the police, maybe, will be brave enough do their duty. Back up the policeman in what he does while exercising his duties, and Windsor will not be honeycombed with gambling, which I believe it is."

Mr. Hollingrake stated he secured h's information from a man who had been in the gambling business but had reformed.

[davebriggs007]

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[natalieironside]

So I used to be a pizza deliver driver, and that was pretty great for me; it made me feel like a video game character doing Quests. And when you started your shift as a driver, you got a wad of 15 singles for making change which was deducted from your tips at the end of the night. And this was back in the very early 20teens so $15 American just so happened to also be the price of half a tank of gas and a pack of Marlboro reds, so it was often also a sort of interest-free loan.

Now, a trope in pornography which was once so common that I myself have never actually seen a genuine portrayal of it but only seen it parodied runs thusly: A brave hero is delivering a pizza to some beautiful person who, upon receipt of the pizza, says, "Unfortunately I don't have any money; could I perhaps cover the cost of the pizza with sexual favors?" And always the hero agrees to this Faustian bargain which I'm sure must seem quite reasonable to you uninitiated civilians.

But, see, I'm making minimum wage. I have no savings. And I already spent my bank on half a tank of gas and a pack of Marlboro reds. So I'm $15 in the hole, and do you know what happens when you don't cash out at the end of the night? The manager calls the cops, and the cops come to your house. Mr. Domino is gonna get his $15 back by hook or by crook. I seen it happen. So if I accept the beautiful person's modest proposal, I'm mortgaging future tips against the $15 *and* the price of the pizza--which can get up there, depending on the order--and if I don't fix those books by the end of my shift, that could get to be a real pain in my ass.

Just doesn't make sense, y'know, from like a business perspective. Maybe it'd be worth a gamble. Maybe if it was like a beautiful woman who was a service top and also a werewolf, maybe you roll the dice and hope for the hard 6. But you gotta be risk-aware, is all I'm sayin.