Bones (game)

Bones was a game played in the Malazan world. The sailor's version of the game included a cribbed box deep enough to keep playing pieces from bouncing out of the field. The bottom of the box had iron-tipped eagle talons sharp enough to grasp the wood of a galley bench or deck.The Bonehunters, Chapter 18, US SFBC p.719
==In The Bonehunters==
A game of Bones was included among the items given to Koryk upon his return to the Malaz 14th Army after the Last Siege of Y'Ghatan. He, Smiles, and Tarr played the game to kill time aboard the Silanda. Tarr lost over twenty games without a single win, but kept coming back for more.
==In Reaper's Gale==
Ebron and the other members of Cord and Balm's squads killed time on the Silanda trying to cheat Crump in games of Bones. The mage complained that the sapper's luck was uncanny, defying even his attempts to sway the bones and scull with magic. He told Cord that Crump had already won more than three hundred imperial jakatas in the game that was rigged against him.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 20, US HC p.612-613
==Notes and references==
Category:Games