Gambling, Historical and Educational Cards
95-96 Spanish Cards showing Four of Cups (with name Naypes, meaning prophetical) and Knave of Money (with the gazelle of Osiris).
97 English Educational Cards—historical. One of the Jubilee pack containing Queen Victoria and all her descendants.
98 Netherlands Domino Card for teaching music.
99 United States Domino Card.
100 United States Numbered Card for game of Grabouche or Flinch.
101 United States Educational Card for game of Authors.
102 English Educational Card for teaching arithmetic.
Games of dice are probably the oldest known, and are found in all Asiatic countries. The evolution from them to dominos is easily traced, for the latter is evidently a pair of dice placed together. The pieces in a Korean set of dominos in the writer’s collection are of the size that a pair of European dice would make if glued side by side. Besides the games of chance, dice are used for divining purposes all over the world, but particularly in Africa and Asia.
Jackstones, or Knuckle-bones, is another old game. There is in the British Museum a most interesting marble group of boys playing Jackstones. A lively dispute, if not an active fight, over the result of the game is in progress, and the little men are scattered over the ground while the boys wrestle.