Talk:Teetotum

Tidy up

I've done the best I can with the tidy-up. A photo would be nice and clarification of that latin also. Rob (Talk) 09:05, 24 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Isn't this highly related to the Dreidel? Especially the description of the game Kirkjerk 15:35, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Alternate Teetotum markings

Is it really necessary to have a Spanish translation of the Latin markings before the English translation? If not, I think I'm going to get rid of them and clean up the spacing.--Bennyfactor 05:30, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Put and take

I added a brief unsourced section because in the United Kingdom (perhaps in Canada or elswehere in the English speaking world) it is more commonly known as "Put and Take", and the redirect put and take leads here, but before there was no mention of it. At the moment it is completely unsourced and I will try to find RS. I found put-take.com so obviously I have notjust invented this, and indeed those brass die spinners are what I say in the section except my grandfather made them on his on lathe and punched the symbols in with a die punch, which is all very nice but veering towards WP:OR. I have in the past taken pictures for Commons but I clearly label as my own work, not so much for attribution but that nobody then thinks they are some kind of professional job. my spinners say "put", "take", and so on whereas the ones on that website abbreviate to "P" and "T". Early days but I hope just getting the section started makes Wikipedia a little better. I don't want to add the reference to that website since I don't think that is WP:RS and as an IP some others may think that I have something to do with that company - I've never heard of them, I just prefer to remain an IP - but leave it there in case it is of use to any other editors. 05:12, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

Actually that website is American, in Florida, so I am wrong in thinking maybe it was WP:ENGVAR, but the tone of the article did suggest this was mostly known in the United States. (It has US spelling, which is fine of course.) I'm British but nobody in Hungary has ever heard of it (not even in Hungarian) so we're enlightening the world which is what we're here for, I thought. The website provides them I guess to casinos but I have never been to Florida - I lived in Texas - and the gaming laws vary state by state so i would hazard it is not the most popular game in the united states... in the UK it is just usually played with family and children for fun. But then British people are ver odd, I have a six-lane dog track with nodding dogs as some pretence at greyhound racing, it's quite easy the first die tells you which dog moves, and the second how many squares it moves. The dog track (an old roll of linoleum, try saying that when you're sober) is just laid out of a grid of six lanes for the dogs and however many spaces fit along the roll, and the children like rolling the big fluffy dice and moving the dogs, and the adults pretend to bet on them and cheer the dogs along and so forth, but it is just for fun not serious betting, which is a mug's game. The secret of winning at gambling: Make sure you are the bookmaker. 92.249.211.226 (talk) 05:22, 6 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]