Dice: alternatives and connections

play a role or part; "Gielgud played Hamlet"; "She wants to act Lady Macbeth, but she is too young for the role"; "She played the serv…

That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.

A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a "board" marked off into twenty-four spaces called "points". Each player has fif…

A building or room used for meetings, or public amusements, for dancing, gaming, etc.

An old game; (a) The game of tipcat and the implement with which it is played. See Tipcat. (c) A game of ball, called, according to th…

A possibility; a likelihood; an opportunity; -- with reference to a doubtful result; as, a chance to escape; a chance for life; the ch…

A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers) which are moved di…

An ornamenting in squares or cubes.

A game much like hockey, played in an open field; also, the, bent stick for playing the game.

A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, bu…

Calcium fluoride, a mineral of many different colors, white, yellow, purple, green, red, etc., often very beautiful, crystallizing com…

Happening by chance; coming or occuring unexpectedly, or without any known cause; chance; as, the fortuitous concourse of atoms.

The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarde…

That which is gained, as the stake in a game; also, the number of points necessary to be scored in order to win a game; as, in short w…

A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small hole…

A game of chance played with dice.

A short piece of instrumental music played between the parts of a song or cantata, or the acts of a drama; especially, in church music…

A game played with five small stones or pieces of metal. See 6th Chuck.