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Categories: Games of physical skill, Traditional toys, Historical games, Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference

jacks jackstones knucklebones Astragaloi Astragalos

A game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball WordNet 3.0

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A game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Knucklebones, also known as scatter jacks, snobs, astragalus, tali, dibs, fivestones, jacks, or jackstones, among many other names, is a game of dexterity played with a number of small objects that are thrown up, caught, and manipulated in various manners. Wikipedia

A game Wikipedia Disambiguation

Dexterity game of ancient origins Wikidata

A pair of jacks. Wiktionary

Pair of jacks. Wiktionary (translation)

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child's game

game of skill

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Spain

DESCRIBED BY SOURCE

Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

Paulys Realenzyklopädie der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft