Shut The Box (Large) - Classic Game

Shut the Box (also called Canoga, Klackers, Batten Down the Hatches,Kingoball and Jackpot), is a game of dice forone or more players, commonly played in a group of two to four for stakes.Traditionally, a counting box is used with tiles numbered 1 to 9 where each canbe covered with a sliding mechanism.

History

Unconfirmed histories of the game suggest a variety oforigins, including 12th century Normandy (northern France) as well as the mid20th century Channel Islands (Jersey and Guernsey) thanks to a man known as Mr.'Chalky' Towbridge. There is also a printed evidence of a dicegame known as "shut the box" being played in Manchester pubs in the mid-1960s. Some say that for more then two hundredyears it has been a favorite game among the sailors of France, who hadintroduced it to other countries through the seaport fraternity. Shut the Box was also the basis of a popular TV quiz show High Rollers duringthe 1970s and the 1980s. The game is also very popular in the beer bars of Thailand using special rules.