Crown & Anchor | Vintage dice game | Rules | History | Strategy

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Crown & Anchor is a 19th-century gambling game. It was a favorite of British, Australian, and American sailors. In this video I outline the history of the game and fail to answer the biggest question: where did Crown & Anchor first come from? Crown & Anchor build video: https://youtu.be/rGe03KfkibU George Pollard’s article on “Ways to Play”: https://games.porg.es/games/crown-and-anchor/ Glückshaus history: https://youtu.be/J2Kcu8BxBJQ www.thegamingbench.com Want to support the channel? Drop me a couple bucks at https://buymeacoffee.com/thegamingbench. Thanks! Some images and video used for fair use commentary, criticism, and educational purposes. MUSIC CREDITS Brandenburg Concerto No4-1 BWV1049 - Classical Whimsical by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100303 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ PHOTO CREDITS D6 namorinicka loterie CC BY-SA 2.5 Matěj Baťha https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jedudedek Sign for the Crown and Anchor, Lugwardine CC BY-SA 2.0 JThomas https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/35313 A Crown & Anchor mat purchased in Colombo (Sri Lanka) in 1915 and used by Australian troops while in transport CC BY 4.0 Museums Victoria/Sandra Morrow https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/387918 A “St. George Series” Crown & Anchor board, c. 1930s? CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 George Pollard https://games.porg.es/ Chinese-style staking layout CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 George Pollard https://games.porg.es/ Children playing with a Thai-produced board CC BY 2.0 PhotAsia https://www.flickr.com/photos/photasia/8373019722/ Playing with a dice tower in Laos; CC BY-NC 2.0 Jodie Gallagher https://www.flickr.com/photos/126412580@N04/14740162634/ A game being played with 6 dice and 12 squares at Pura Samuan Tiga temple CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Walther Tjon Pian Gi https://www.flickr.com/photos/wtpg/15100534169/ Custom Glückshaus board C BY-SA 4.0 BobTheFactChecker https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:BobTheFactChecker Foto van oorlog CC BY-SA 4.0 FAK https://afrikanergeskiedenis.co.za/presidente/oorsig/ Hoo hey how CC BY-SA 3.0 Arjan http://membres.lycos.fr/arjan/ REFERENCES Publications * Bell, R.C. The Boardgame Book, The Knapp Press, 1979 * Grunfeld, Frederic. Games of the World, Ballatine Books, 1977 * Hayes, Bertram Fox. Hull Down; Reminiscences of Windjammers, Troops and Travellers. The Macmillan Co., 1925 * Parlett, David. Parlett’s History of Board Games. Echo Point Books & Media, 2018 * Partridge, Eric. Smaller Slang Dictionary. Long; Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976 * Pritchard, David. The Family Book of Games. Brockhampton Press, 1995 Websites https://games.porg.es/games/crown-and-anchor/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_and_Anchor https://ladyheatherhall.com/2016/11/15/crown-and-anchor/ https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/86434-crown-anchor-board/ Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eztN31fScPY Timecodes 00:00 - Intro 00:27 - Board & pieces 00:56 - Rules 02:33 - History 06:45 - Sweat-Cloth 08:57 - Known by name 09:50 - A tragic tale 11:45 - WWI 13:29 - Asian varieties 14:20 - Strategy 15:04 - Wrap-up #boardgames #England, #BritishNavy, #history, #ancienthistory, #gambling STANDARD DISCLAIMER: I am well aware that my pronunciation of foreign words, names, and places (and let's be honest, sometimes words in my native language) is terrible. I do look up pronunciations, and I try to get my American mouth to make the right noises. But at the end of the day, I’m just a small-town guy who’s doing his best. Also, I am not a professional game scholar, just an enthusiastic amateur. This means my work may be incomplete, biased and, (I hope only rarely) outright wrong. I work hard to use reliable sources, double-check for accuracy, and draw reasonable conclusions. However, the scholarship surrounding ancient games is constantly growing and evolving; as a part-time game researcher and YouTube content creator, I am not always up to date on the most recent findings. If I present anything that is demonstrably incorrect, please call me out so I may increase my personal knowledge and understanding of this fascinating subject. Reach me at heygamingbench@gmail.com.