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The Dice Game "House of Fortune"
The House of Fortune is a gambling game played with dice. The game was invented by Dagonell "The Juggler" of Belanost. The board is illustrated below. Usually, these wooden boards are expensive and elaborately carved with painted works of art engraved in them. Each square of the board contains a scene, and the rest of the board surrounding the squares is heavily stylized.
Players take turns throwing a pair of 6-sided dice. On a roll of a three, five, six, eight, nine, ten or eleven, the player takes a coin if one was on the square belonging to that number, or places one there if it was empty. Seven is The Wedding square. If a player rolled a seven, he places a coin on the square (but does not take one) because one always brings a gift to a wedding. Two is The Lucky Pig. If a player rolls a two, he collects all the coins on the board except for The Wedding. Twelve is The King. If a player rolls a twelve, he collects all the coins on the board including The Wedding, because nothing can be denied to The King. There is no square for rolling a four. In Belanost, if a player rolls a four, he pays a coin to the owner of the board. In a friendly game however players should agree in advance whether a player rolling a four should lose his turn, or roll again or worse yet, place a coin on every sqaure on the board. Of course the stakes can be raised depending on the type of coins on the board, platnium being the rarest.
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