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    one or more stones or knucklebones from the table while the ball is in the air. This continues until all five stones or knucklebones have been picked up...
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    fortune-telling with the talus of hoofed animals, colloquially known as knucklebones. The Egyptian game of senet (played before 3000 BCE and up to the 2nd...
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    Metatarsal bones (redirect from Knucklebone)
    The metatarsal bones or metatarsus (pl.: metatarsi) are a group of five long bones in the midfoot, located between the tarsal bones (which form the heel...
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    2013-09-30. "Knucklebones". Mubi.Com. Retrieved 6 September 2013. "Knucklebones (1971)". IMDb.Com. Retrieved 6 September 2013. "Se-ghap (Knucklebones) (1971)...
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    or numbers. Historically, as with dice games, the "dice" were usually knucklebones or other small bones of quadrupeds. Marked astragali (talus bones) of...
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  • (February 5, 2007). "Magazine Review: Knucklebones". Blog Critics. Retrieved November 29, 2015. "Knucklebones and Games Quarterly". BoardGameGeek. May...
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    ludus latrunculorum and ludus duodecim scriptorum, or a game played with knucklebones (astragali). Latin poetry often explores the concept of ludus as playfulness...
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  • Knucklebone is a group of five long bones in the midfoot. Knucklebone may also refer to: The knuckles, or metacarpal bones Knucklebones, a game Knucklebone...
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    of Nepal in 2017. Popular children's games include versions of tag, knucklebones, hopscotch, Duck, duck, goose and lagori, while marbles, top, hoop rolling...
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  • (knucklebones). The game was played with four 4-sided rectangular dice numbered I, III, IV and VI, usually made from sheep's or goat's knucklebones. In...
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    for children and young people in the Empire included hoop rolling and knucklebones (astragali or "jacks"). Girls had dolls made of wood, terracotta, and...
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    has media related to Caltrops (weapon). Area denial weapon Booby trap Knucklebones, a game, with similar hazards Triskelion Burke, John (1846). A Genealogical...
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    even though many have passed laws restricting it. Early people used the knucklebones of sheep as dice. Some people develop a psychological addiction to gambling...
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    Heraclitus, thoroughly disapproving of civil life at Ephesus, played knucklebones in the temple with the boys, and later deposited his writings there....
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  • relaxing or sleeping Onesie (infant bodysuit), a garment worn by babies Knucklebones, a children's game, is also called onesies Onesie Wednesday, a day to...
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    other materials could serve as missiles: pebbles, shells, coins, or knucklebones were also used. In one grave site in Vetralla, a woman was buried with...
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    Greenlandic Inuit believed that spirits inhabited every human joint, even knucklebones. List of features in Greenland named after Greenlandic Inuit Inuit Circumpolar...
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  • Jacks or jacks in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Jacks may refer to: Knucklebones, a game of ancient origin, also known as "jacks" Jacks (band), a 1960s...
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    five knucklebones and a bronze needle; another, of a female child, contained an unguentarium, earrings, a blue glass pendant, and six knucklebones. Gold...
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    "Not Much Equipment Games" returns – Bear, Hunter, Ninja! - Knucklebones". Knucklebones. 16 November 2010. Retrieved 2 May 2015. "Ninja, Hunter, Bear"...
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  • Life Fire & Movement (defunct) Games (defunct) The General (defunct) Knucklebones (defunct) Moves (defunct) Strategy & Tactics COINage Coins (defunct)...
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    tops Jacks are spun as tops upon one of their points or used to play knucklebones. Yo-yo Gould, D. W. (1973). The Top. NY: Clarkson Potter. pp. 20–24....
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  • Keep Away (Monkey in the middle) Knock, Knock, Ginger (Ding dong ditch) Knucklebones (jackstones, Jacks) Limbo London Bridge Mother May I? Oshikura Manju...
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    animals, leading to the nickname "bones" for dice. Colloquially known as "knucklebones", these are approximately tetrahedral. Modern Mongolians still use such...
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  • Greece and Rome called 'Astragal' (Knucklebones), where children played a similar game using sheep's knucklebones. This ancient pastime is also known...
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  • two people say the same thing at the same time An alternative name for knucklebones Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines, a 1975 opera by Jack Beeson Jinks...
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    of aristocratic descent; the Secret History notes that they exchanged knucklebones and arrows as gifts and swore the anda pact—the traditional oath of Mongol...
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    It is similar in shape (and design) to a much larger version of metal knucklebones or caltrops. The hedgehog is very effective in keeping light to medium...
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    Phoebe pacifying Leto and Niobe while two Niobids play knucklebones, fresco of Herculaneum, 1st century AD, National Archaeological Museum, Naples....
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    Phoebe trying to pacify Leto and Niobe, while Hilearia and Agle play knucklebones, painted and signed by an artist named "Alexander of Athens", 1st century...
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