Its teetotum was an ivory dowel sharpened to a point at the bottom end inserted in an octagonal ivory plate.
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Though many teetotums ( for example, the dreidel ) are four-faced, they may have any practical number of faces.
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To reach The Mansion of Happiness, the player spins a teetotum and races around a sixty-six space spiral track depicting various virtues and vices.
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The only two who did not complete the course were Robinson, who refused and did not continue and Teetotum, who was pulled up during the second circuit.
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Since dice were called " the bones of the Devil " because they were used to determine which Roman soldier would keep Christ's loin cloth, teetotums were used instead.
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A teetotum is essentially a long die ( though not necessarily physically long ) with a spindle through its axis, allowing it to be spun and preventing it landing on end.
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In Lewis Carroll's fantasy " Through the Looking-Glass ", White Queen transformed into a sheep ) to ask, " Are you a child, or a teetotum ?"
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Sources for W . Holman Bentley's games are " Pioneering on the Congo, vol II . . The pages for the games are pgs 289-93 wrestling, pg 293 spinning the teetotum, and pg 396 mbadi ( hockey ), mbele, and antelope game.
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Rather than using dice, players used a teetotum, a multi-sided top, with a number on each side, players moving the number of spaces indicated by the uppermost side when the top falls . ( Dice were considered gambling instruments, and not appropriate in Christian households .)
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Bradley personally sold his first run of several hundred copies in a two-day visit to New York; by 1861, consumers had bought more than 45, 000 copies . " The Checkered Game of Life " followed a structure similar to its American and British predecessors, with players spinning a teetotum to advance to squares representing social virtues and vices, such as " influence " or " poverty ", with the former earning a player points and the latter retarding his progress.
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