Tag Archive: chuck-a-luck

Throwing dice and trying to predict the outcome has been a gambling past-time for thousands of years. More recently, over the last few hundred years, various dice games have been invented or evolved from older games. Probably the best-known dice game today is the casino table game of craps. Though at first, it appears to be complex, it's actually easy to learn. Furthermore, it's also popular because it's a social game. Then we have games like Sic Bo, Klondike, Banka Francesca and Chuck-A-Luck.

Wow, this is a step back in time. The old game of Chuck-a-luck was an old favorite back in the gold rush day of the late 19th century. In particular the states of Nevada and California where it was played in the mining camps. Though there are a number of game variations, essentially, the game we know today came from an old English game called "Hazard". Though the main difference is that hazard uses two dice, whereas Chuck-a-luck uses three, in a ways similar to Sic-Bo.