Play
At the start of the game all levers or tiles are cleared, showing all the numerals 1 through 9. On a player's turn, they roll the pair of dice and then cover or "shut" certain numbers that equal the total of their dice roll. For example, a roll totaling 5 allows the player to shut either 1 and 4, 2 and 3, or just 5.
The player then rolls the dice again, aiming to shut out more numbers. This continues until the player cannot shut any available numbers, at which point they score one point per number covered. If the player manages to cover all the numbers in the game, they have "Shut the Box". Otherwise play passes to the next player, and after everyone takes a set number of turns the highest score wins.
Read more about this topic: Shut The Box
Famous quotes containing the word play:
“When I play with my cat, who knows whether she isn’t amusing herself with me more than I with her.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.”
—Jonathan Raban (b. 1942)
“You’ll stay here with me my child, won’t you? It’s been so lonely without you. But you’ve come to me at last, haven’t you? Now you’ll sing for me and I’ll play and we’ll be together forever.”
—Eric Taylor, and Leroux. Arthur Lubin. Erique Claudin (Claude Rains)