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SHUT-THE-BOX: A PIRATE DICING GAME

Shut-the-Box is a dice-based strategic game of chance for one or more players. The game’s components include a counting box with nine numbered tiles and a pair of standard six-sided dice. Players take turns rolling dice, flipping down numbered tiles, and accruing penalty points until they are knocked out of the game; the last player left is the winner. Also called Tric-Trac, Canoga, or Batten Down the Hatches, Shut-the-Box is a game with an enduring, if foggy, history. It seems to have first gained notice as a game played by Hudson Bay Company sailors. Descriptions of the game go as far back as the 12th century, when it was popular with sailors on the English Channel. Although it is now often associated with ...