[Loch-Ruadh] Games at Gulf War

[Stefen and Rhonda Hays]

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Greetings,

Well, as fate would have it, Daire and I are bringing the five year old with us again this year.  Oh well.  So, we will be spending more time in camp at night that what we had originally planned.

We are going to bring a "gambling game" that a friend of ours introduced us to some years ago.  It has some history in Bjornsborg, is sort of period and tons of fun.

In order to play, you need only bring things to gamble with.  It is a game of chance, played with two dice which specifies a square which tells you what to do...either take something, leave something, take it all, or give every player something.

Gambling goods can be as meagher or as rich as your tastes and risk factor dictates.  Shell necklaces are often unstrung and the small shells come in handy when you land on the square that tells you to give every player something.  Bits of metal (like hack silver in a viking horde), any metal jewelry, pretty stones, beads, horn, even glass marbles are great.  Be creative, dig out all of those single ear rings that you no longer have use for.  For those of you who do not collect site tokens, these make great gambling goods.  And, yes, if you lose your goods, you lose your goods.  We really are gambling.  There is no return of items lost, well at least at the table anyway.

Players come and go from the table at will, there is no defined stop or start as in some board games and play is often interupted with attempts at humor and tales of one's persona.  Mead and beer seem to make the game fun as well.

I will be at populace this week and will bring out my bag of goods and the game (it is on a piece of leather) for anyone interested in  looking at it.

Medb Liath
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