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DOUBLETS

Volume 2 · 134 words · 1771 Edition

a game on dice within tables: the men, which are only fifteen, being placed thus; upon the five, cinque, and quater points, there stand three men a-piece; and upon the trey, duce, and ace, only two. He that throws highest hath the benefit of throwing first, and what he throws he lays down, and so doth the other: what the one throws, and hath not, the other lays down for him, but on his own account; and thus they do till all the men are down, and then they bear. He that is down first bears first, and will doublets win the game, if the other throws not doublets to overtake him; which he is sure to do, since he advances or bears as many as the doublets make, viz. eight for two fours.