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DOUBLETS

Volume 4 · 133 words · 1778 Edition

a game on dice within tables; the men, which are only 15, being placed thus: Upon the six, cinque, and quatre points, there stand three men a-piece; and upon the trey, dace, 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 others: 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