GAMBLING

Playing with dice was called dicing. A good dice game is Hazard, rather like Craps

The word used for backgammon is tables. The "acey-deucy" version is called the Corsican game. You can lose a good deal of money in a tabling den.

Two good period card games are Primero and Taroccho played with tarot cards

Gambling during Elizabethan was a normal pastime.  Maw, Ruff and Honours, One Thirty and Bone-ace were popular games during the time.  One Thirty and Bone-ace are both ancestors to the game today known as 'blackjack'.