The Rampant Strawberry Inn

CROWN & ANCHOR In medieval England and Europe there were many dice game of chance the lot of them being refereed to a lotto games.  The rolling of 3 dice and losing if the roll is less then 10 or doubling if it is 10 and above was one such variant. In this game one person would be the banker, one other person would roll and if the roller rolled 10 or over he would be the roller again but if he rolled below 10  he would pass the dice. The banker changed for every single roll. One game evolved and continues today in England and has its own society even that is Crown and Anchor. in stead of the 6 sided dice having 1 though 6 on them they have the 4 french card suits and a Crown and Anchor on them. This same game can be played with regular 1 through 6 dice. How to play Crown and Anchor One person is declared the banker, this position changes after each roll. One person is declared the 1st roller. the 1st roller and all other players except the banker place one ...

The challenge in my SCA gaming are the rabbit holes. I am down 2 right now.   I just received the 50 Tagus nuts I ordered so that I can carve a chess set from nut Ivory. At the same time, I am working on the rules for Tafl I just received "Flora Lapponoca-Primary Source Edition by Carl von Linne'" anyone want to translate it. lol. thats ok there are a few translations out there, it seems they are all based of the first translation which was wrong. and so the rules for tafl that we have been using are not quite correct and I want the correct ones. This book is by a botanist it is his diary of his trip and he observed this game being played by locals. ___from wikki about Linne' a Swedish botanist, zoologist, and physician who formalized binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy”. Many of his writings were in Latin, and his name is rendered in Latin as Carolus Linnæus (after 1761 Carolus...