Shut The Box (Medium) - Classic Game

<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">Shut&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">the&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">Box (also&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">called Canoga, Klackers, Batten Down the Hatches, kingoball&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">and&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">Jackpot),&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">is a game of dice for one or more players, commonly played in a group of two to four for stakes. Traditionally, a counting box is used with tiles numbered 1 to 9 where each can be covered with&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">a&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">sliding mechanism.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;"><br></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;"></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: underline;">History</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">Unconfirmed histories of the game suggest a variety of origins, including 12th century Normandy (northern France) as well as the mid 20th century Channel Islands (Jersey and Guernsey) thanks to a man known as Mr. 'Chalky'&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">Towbridge</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">. There&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">is&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">also a printed&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">evidence of a dice game known as "shut the box" being played in Manchester pubs in the&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">mid-1960s</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">. Some say that for&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">more then two hundred years it has been a favorite game among the sailors of France, who had introduced it to other countries through the seaport fraternity.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">Shut&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">the&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">Box&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">was&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">also the basis&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">of&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">a popular&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">TV quiz&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">show&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">High Rollers during the 1970s and the 1980s. The&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">game is&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">also&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">very popular&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">in the beer bars of Thailand using special&nbsp;</span></p>

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