Shut the Box | Old English pub game | Rules | History | Strategy

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Shut the Box is an old UK pub game that some believe dates back to the 1800s. I discuss the rules and strategy, as well as the history—including a mystery man who is alleged to have reintroduced the game to England in the 1950s. Shut the Box build video: https://youtu.be/cDwWBBK18hM Gluckshaus rules, history, strategy video: https://youtu.be/J2Kcu8BxBJQ Want to support the channel? https://buymeacoffee.com/thegamingbench www.thegamingbench.com PHOTO CREDITS Channel Islands CC BY-SA 3.0 User:Cnbrb, User:UKPhoenix79, User:TomPhil https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Cnbrb https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:UKPhoenix79 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:TomPhil Gluckshaus CC BY-SA 4.0 BobTheFactChecker https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:BobTheFactChecker Cribbage CC BY-SA 4.0 Pugilist https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pugilist Test pattern video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayf1sYiNLhQ MUSIC CREDITS Master of the Feast 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=USUAN1400019 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ 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/ REFERENCES Publications * Bell, R.C. Discovering Old Board Games, Shire Publications Ltd., 1973 * Bell, R.C. The Boardgame Book, The Knapp Press, 1979 * Finn, Timothy. Pub Games of England, Queen Anne Press Ltd., 1975 * Grunfeld, Frederic. Games of the World, Ballatine Books, 1977 * Murray, H.J.R. A History of Board-Games Other Than Chess, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1952 * Pritchard, David. The Family Book of Games. Brockhampton Press, 1995 * Salamallah the Corpulent. Medieval Games, Raymond’s Quiet Press, 1982 Videos www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpOYGgVObOg www.youtube.com/watch?v=czSxvFqFHdA www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz_tEYUqrYw WEBSITES https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shut_the_box https://www.tradgames.org.uk/games/Shut-The-Box.htm https://pub-games.blogspot.com/ https://pub-games.blogspot.com/search/label/Pitch%20Penny https://www.tradgames.org.uk/games/Shut-The-Box.htm Timecodes 00:00 - Intro 00:25 - Board & pieces 00:56 - Rules 04:28 - Rule variations 06:04 - History 09:48 - Last minute update! 13:16 - Pure speculation 15:59 - Strategy 15:45 - Wrap-up #boardgames #ancientgames, #pubgames, #history