Talk:Shut the box
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[edit] Confusing rules; general structure comment
Thank you for writing this article -- this is the kind of game that our family loves to play together.
This article seems to have been written pretty quickly and is a bit sketchy on the rules, using bullet points and abbreviated language where a detailed explanation would be most helpful. The 45 penalty points and the "long game" method are especially confusing. Penalty points in general, and who scores which points when... I'm just not sure how to play.
The structure of this article overall seems a little scrambled: it would seem to me to make more sense to put History first, and combine Rules and Play into a more detailed Play section, possibly with some examples.
[edit] History
I was looking through commons and ran across this: Image:Judith Leyster A Game of Tric Trac.jpg. Since it's a seventeenth century painting, it at least suggests a rather longer history than is described here. Goldfritha 16:57, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
- Here's an even older one, 16th century: Image:Trictrac lenain.jpg Goldfritha 17:04, 14 April 2007 (UTC)