Eagle shooting (dice game)
The Adler shooting is a historical dice and gambling that the bird shooting when shooting match has been derived. The game, which was particularly widespread in the 18th and 19th centuries, was played with lavishly designed dice fields in the form of archery eagles and, as in bird shooting, the participants had to try to gradually hit and remove parts of the eagle in order to capture the most valuable parts of the eagle win.
description
Eagle shooting is usually played with two dice and at least three players. With different variants, only one or more than two cubes can be used. The central element of the game is a picture of an eagle or an eagle assembled from numerous individual parts, on whose individual elements dice numbers are depicted. The players in turn roll the dice and try to “shoot down” parts of the eagle by rolling the appropriate combination of dice. In addition, the other players usually play for a stake in the form of coins or chips, which is agreed before the game and paid into a common pot . A total of 70 to 80 coins is required in the pot, to which each player contributes an equal share.
The active player in each case throws the two dice in which the individual images and not the total number of eyes are counted. If the throw corresponds to a required result of a free-standing part of the eagle, a "chip", this is covered with a game chip (or removed in the case of a paper or wooden model). All external elements of the eagle are free-standing, i.e. all wing feathers , all tail feathers , the small crowns as well as the scepter and orb held by the claws . When all of the flight feathers are removed the main wing pieces become free standing, and after all the tail feathers are removed the main tail pieces become free standing. The same applies to the thighs when the scepter and orb has been removed, and to the heads when the small crowns have been shot down. The central pieces become free accordingly when all other pieces have been gradually removed. Each hit is rewarded with chips or coins from the pot, with the number of coins won increasing from the outer to the central pieces.
All throws with a result that has already been covered or removed or corresponds to a chip that is not free will be counted as a miss. Missing throws are penalized and depending on the value of the dice, players have to pay chips or coins into the pot. Simple miss throws with two different dice values with a low value (1 chip), light doubles (2-2, 3-3, 4-4, 5-5) with a higher value (2 chips) and heavy doubles (1- 1) punished with the highest value (4 chips). In the case of a double for a chip already owned by another player, that player receives half of the penalty and the other half is paid into the pot. If it is the main crown, the owner gets 3 chips and only one goes into the pot, but he has to pass the crown on to the miss. A shot on the chest piece (6-6) is rewarded with a bonus of 4 chips from the pot.
The breastplate is the last part of the eagle that is only free-standing when all other parts around it have been removed. The player who hits this last piece by rolling a 6-6 wins the game and is the shooter king . He also wins the entire remaining stake of all players in the pot, but pays the last player who threw a 6-6 a bonus of 6 chips from his winnings and buys them from the owner of the main crown for 12 chips. For the next game, the shooter king has the first shot.
variants
The game can be played in several variants, which on the one hand affect individual rules such as the stake and bonus rules, or the structure of the eagle and the number of dice. In his The Great Humboldt Encyclopedia of Dice Games, Kastner suggests a more modern version with a simpler eagle and the use of five dice. The mainspring can be removed with double sets (1-1 to 6-6), for all other parts triple sets or triples are required. Missing throws are not penalized in this version.
Background and story
Eagle shooting probably originated in the 18th century and was inspired by the bird shooting of the rifle clubs, whose tradition dates back to bird shooting with a crossbow in the Middle Ages . For the game, elaborately designed eagle graphics and wooden eagles were produced, on whose parts the numbers to be rolled were painted.
Around 1840, "The Eagle Shooting on the Table" was published by the Winckelmann & Sons publishing house in Berlin, founded in 1828, with 46 individual parts marked with dice numbers, which could be assembled to form a 40 to 50 centimeter large Russian double-headed eagle . In the 1940s, the game of Walther Blachetta , who worked as editor in the Reich Press Office of the NSDAP and published numerous game and song books on propaganda and popular employment , was included in his book Das große Spielmagazin and published with a handicraft sheet for an eagle. In the 1950s it appeared as an eagle shoot by Otto Maier Verlag Ravensburg .
supporting documents
- ↑ a b c d e f g h "Eagle shooting". In: Hugo Kastner: The great Humboldt encyclopedia of dice games. Humboldts Verlags GmbH, Baden-Baden 2007; Pp. 68-71. ISBN 978-3-89994-087-9 .
- ↑ a b c "The Eagle Shoot". In: Walther Blachetta : The great game magazine. Publishing house Erich Klinghammer, Berlin 1942; Pp. 70-72.
- ↑ a b The eagle shooting on the table , description on lot-tissimo.com, accessed on March 23, 2020.
- ↑ Adlerschiessen at ludorium.at, accessed on March 23, 2020.
literature
- "Eagle shooting". In: Hugo Kastner: The great Humboldt encyclopedia of dice games. Humboldts Verlags GmbH, Baden-Baden 2007; Pp. 68-71. ISBN 978-3-89994-087-9 .
- "The Eagle Shoot". In: Walther Blachetta : The great game magazine. Publishing house Erich Klinghammer, Berlin 1942; Pp. 70-72.