Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-05-25
CAN YOU PLAY CRAPS?
Rules For and Method of Playing tho
Game With the Little Cubes.

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Game With the Little Cubes.
Crap shooting is the latest game to occu-
py attention. 1t is generally played by
the colored brethren, and some exciting
times they have over it too. As it has
excited good deal of attention here and
even promises TO enter TO portals of society.
A little history and description of the pc
culian game may be found of interest.
1t was first played by the roustabouts
along the levees in New Orleans. The
great river steamboats, carried il along the
Mississippi, and it was fully developed as
gambling pastime by the sporting Paternity
of Kentucky. The sports of the state say
that it came TO them at a very opportune
time. The Legislature had just made ii
both difficult and punishable for players in
faro, kene and poker. The Kentucky
legislators never thought that the gam
bling methods of New Orleans roustabouts.
would ever find a place upon the green
cloth for gentlemen, and so iailed to
''legislate against it, Crap being be
yond law grew rapidly in popularity, and
is now generally played
1t was at one time called "OOutz" so
named from the pig-like cry Of the player
rs he throws the dice. II is by this name
that the game is known throughout the
West. II is game easy TO learn, and by
1t you can lose your money as conveniently
and as rapidly as you may desire. You
may play for a cent and upward, neither
the amount of moner staked or the number
of players peamitted being limited. The
necessary 'lay out, for the game consists
of pair Of ivory cubes, called dice, upon
each of the sides of which are black dots
running from one TO six. Each player de-
posits with the stake holders given sum,
the limit in some places being 81 TO each
player.
Again, some 'gamekeepers'' permit play
ers TO throw" the dice for position; the
PLAYER making the highest number secures
the first threw The first player takes the
two dice in his hands, and, after shaking
them, spills them out upon the table. II the
dice "come sevenn or come eleven,m that
is. if the sum of the dots on the upper face
of the dice count the thrower or II, he
takes the stake, less ,. 10 or - per cent,
which goes TO the gamekeeper. This player
is again entitled to first throw. new pot
being contributed to by all the players, and
he holds the first throw until he fails TO cast
or an II. If upon the first throw he
fails TO cast the numbers or II, he is enti-
tied to throw again. the number Of his first
throw being his point, and he continues
shooting until he throws that point, which
entities him 10 the pot, or until he throws
the number seven, when he loses and the
throw passes to the next player on the left.
For instance If failing on the first cast TO
throw or II, the player turns six, he
shoots again, and so on until SIX is made,
when he wins, or until the result is seven,
and he must contribute if he stays in the
game, 10 every pot until the throw returns
to him Frequently the throw passes
round several times, and the stake swells
with every round.
A very funny vocabulary has been orig
mated by the games. The numbers made
by the dice are known by the following
names:
Six ..... ......................Jim Jimmie lIic
Ten........... ................... Big Dick
Nine............ Ninety days
crap
Deuce.....-....... ............ -. O.. Zig Bess
Tray. ........................De Devil stickers
The ace is considered very lucky, the tray
very unlucky. The meaning Of expressions
used by the players seem very odd:
''Shot his load" means the player has.
lost his last cent.
I'm hOt''-in luck or winning.
1--WE got you faded'-player's money
covered by another.
II amt passingr-don't be scared
run through me like sievem-player
has lost every time.
II shoot in a dime'' - deposits that
amount.
81 come for you'll want to play
Uncle Sans money has been renamed,
as follows:
Cent................ ....................A brown
Five cents. pick
Quarter. Observation-Disclosures. Two bits
Dollar. Eight bits
TWO dollars ....... ......................A shoot
If you get around when party Of colored
men are playing the game YOU will hear
them shouting: big Dick from Boston,
Come 'Leven ~ 'Come Seven !" etc, etc,
and it is very amusing TO watch them. A
number of intricacies have been introduced
which are not necessarily part Of the
game.
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