<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Glückshaus is a relatively modern version of the larger family of Games of Seven (games played with two six-sided dice and a stake board with fields usually numbered 2-12, often with an emphasized 7.). This paper looks at various historical versions of the game and shows how the modern Glückshaus version and its pecularities (e.g. a missing field for the number 4) came about when the dice game was combined with a stake board for a card game</p></abstract>

Glückshaus is a relatively modern version of the larger family of Games of Seven (games played with two six-sided dice and a stake board with fields usually numbered 2-12, often with an emphasized 7.). This paper looks at various historical versions of the game and shows how the modern Glückshaus version and its pecularities (e.g. a missing field for the number 4) came about when the dice game was combined with a stake board for a card game

The Game of Seven: Glückshaus and Related Dice Games

Board Game Studies Journal

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Glückshaus is a relatively modern version of the larger family of Games of Seven (games played with two six-sided dice and a stake board with fields usually...

The Game of Seven: Glückshaus and Related Dice Games

Published Online: Nov 08, 2019

Page range: 67 - 97

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bgs-2019-0004

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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.