Kakelorum

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A kakelorum is a game of chance from the mid-19th century that first appeared in Upper Austria and spread throughout the Alpine region.

nature

This is a wooden ball game with a hollow figure about 20 to 30 cm high on the edge and a round game board with a diameter of about 25 to 35 cm below (deviations are possible). It is said to have been in every lottery shop in Vienna.

game

In the game you send a marble down a spiral run- up path (the figure with a throw-in hole) onto the round game board. The aim of the game is to get the ball into one of the 58 numbered wells with the highest number possible. If a player hits the recess 58 in the middle of the game board with the ball , the game is won immediately.

The game board itself has a 2–3 cm high rim to prevent the ball or marble from escaping , as well as 58 very shallow recesses. The numbering begins at the point of entry of the ball and runs in a snail shape towards the center. The 58th recess is in the middle of the board.

The type and structure of the game suggest that after a predetermined bet you could set the ball in motion and then win a prize depending on the hit. Traveling dealers carried games of this type with them and often had to rely on the confidentiality of the participants, since such games were temporarily prohibited.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Zollinger: History of the game of chance: from the 17th century to the Second World War . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-205-98518-4 , p. 117 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ http://austria-forum.org/af/Heimatlexikon/Spielzeugmacher

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