How to play this Traditional family Game
History
The complete history of Shut the Box is not fully known, but the family game can be traced back to France.
This Pub game did not appear in England until the mid 20th Century.
Shut the Box is traditional game for two or more. The object of the game is to cover all the numbers, or 'shut the box' according to throws of the dice.
Rules to playing the game of Shut the Box
The game starts with the boxes open.
The object is for one player to close all the boxes with continuous throws of the dice. Any combination of numbers may be shut against those numbers shown on the dice, but once used may not be used again.
E.g. dice throwing 6+3=9. Boxes closed may be 1 – 8, 7 – 2,5 – 4,2 –3 – 4 etc.
When as many boxes as possible are shut, the numbers remaining are read off from left to right e.g. 1,4,6 remains equals 146. The next player then tries to score under 146.
Another way is to total the numbers remaining 1,4,6 =11. The next player then tries to score under 11
(a) A throw shutting all boxes automatically wins.
(b) When the last box to be closed is a 1 on it’s own, a single dice is used.
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