false dice

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Sakuni was an expert at false dice, and challenged Yudhishthir, and Yudhishthir held it a point of honour not to decline such a challenge.

From Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse by Dutt, Romesh

If any one play with false dice or cheat, the monarch shall have him branded and banished.

From Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya by Edward Röer

Lubber, name of a spirit, 8.Good year, corruption of goujère, 274.Goose, emblem of cowardice, 119;terms connected with, 118, 119.Gossamer, notions relating to, 259.Gossip’s bowl, 205.Gourds, false dice, 402.Gout,

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger

With wily craft the sharpers substituted their deceitful 'doctors' or false dice; and thus 'crabs,' or 'a losing game,' became the portion of the 'flats,' or dupes.

From The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume II (of II) by Steinmetz, Andrew

Other fellows did gain a livelihood by play, for at that they were better than sharpers and could get their simple comrades' money from them with false dice: but such a profession I loathed.

From The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Grimmelshausen, Hans Jacob Christoph von