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Dice: Deception, Fate & Rotton Luck
by Ricky Jay
Jay rolls the history of dice in this entertaining and informative volume that takes readers from the earliest forms made from animal hooves, to those made from ivory, celluloid, and plastic. He also charts the infamous players of history, accompanied by Purcell's seductive photos. 13 photos.
Sleight-of-Hand Master Ricky Jay Explores The Lore of Dice
Plato said God invented dice. This we learn from one of Ricky Jay's fascinating essays in a delightful small volume that takes us from the earliest forms (astragali—the heel bones of hoofed quadrupeds, four of whose six sides were used for gaming) to the myriad types of "loading" and other means of cheating with dice in the modern era. Along the way we discover that Augustus, Caligula, and Nero were all inveterate players, that Queen Elizabeth issued a search and seizure order against the manufacture of false dice in 1598, and that dice made from celluloid, invented in 1869, remained stable for decades, and then—in a flash—began to decompose. These are the dice of Rosamond Purcell's luminous and seductive photographs, images which transform entropy to an art form. Jay and Purcell give us a dual meditation on dice that will educate us and amuse us at the same time. 13 color photographs.