The number of counters used corresponded to the number of lines, each player having as many counters as lines on the board. Larger versions could have more lines, but always an odd number as there had to be a central, or 'sacred', line.įrom the written sources we learn that the aim of the game was to move all one's counters onto this 'sacred' line. The standard game was played on aboard with five parallel lines. Based on these and other written and archaeological sources, a set of rules have been developed that are in keeping with these hints. Much later, in the 12th-century AD, Eustathios explains that ‘the beaten player goes to it last’, that is the winning player is the one who manages to move all his five pieces onto the sacred line first. As such it describes well the function of this line. The term 'sacred' may relate to the ancient Greek concepts of asylum and hiketeia, that is the inviolable right of persons in search of aid to take refuge in a sanctuary where nobody had the right to remove them by force. And moving a piece already arrived there gave rise to the proverb “he moves the piece from the sacred line” (bad luck!)’. His entry states that ‘each of the two players had five pieces upon five lines’ adding that ‘there was a middle one called the sacred line. In his Onomasticon, the 2nd-century AD lexicographer, Pollus, lists Pente grammai amongst games of chance. Consequently, in some variants of the rules, straights are counted as busts.It is only in the Imperial Roman period that we learn more about the game. In poker dice there are in fact only four possible bust hands:, ,, and both other no-pair hands (i.e., in which either the A or the 9 are missing) are straights. The poker dice hand rankings and the corresponding probabilities of rolling that hand are as follows (not sorted by probability but from highest to lowest ranking): Handīusts are much lower probability than in card poker, because there are only 6 values instead of 13, making pairs and straights much more likely than with cards. The remaining 8 faces featured stars and acted as wild cards allowing for every possible poker hand to be rolled. The sets featured 5 12 sided dice allowing for all 52 playing cards to be represented.
In 1974 Aurora produced a set of 12 sided poker dice called "Jimmy the Greek Odds Maker Poker Dice" and in 2000 Aurora/Rex Games produced a similar set under the name "Royal Poker Dice". A similar set are currently manufactured by Koplow Games. Marlboro once marketed a set of octahedral poker dice that included suits each die had slightly different numberings, ranging from 7 up to ace.
Manufacturers have not standardized the colors of the face sides.) 9♣ and 10♦ are frequently found, while face cards are traditionally represented not by suit but instead by color: red for kings, green for queens and blue for jacks. (Each variety of poker dice varies slightly in regard to suits, though the ace of spades is almost universally represented. Neither a "flush" nor a "straight flush" is a possible hand, due to the lack of suits on the dice. After the three rolls the best hand wins. Each player has a total of 3 rolls and the ability to hold dice in between rolls. The classic poker dice game is played with 5 dice and two or more players. Poker dice have six sides, one each of an Ace, King, Queen, Jack, ten and nine, and are used to form a poker hand.
Poker dice are dice which, instead of having number pips, have representations of playing cards upon them.
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