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[[File:EO_Wheel-caricature.jpg|thumb|Even-Odd as an early form of [[roulette]]]]
'''Odds and Evens''' is a simple [[gambling game]], involving a person taking various coins or other small object in the hand, closing it and another player guessing whether the number of coins or objects is [[odd or even]].
==History==
This game was known by the [[Greeks]] (as ''artiazein'') and [[Romans]] (as ''ludere par impar''). In the 1858 Krünitzlexikon it says:<ref>Krünitzlexikon von 1858</ref>
''"The game Odds and Evens was very common amongst the Romans and was played either with [[knucklebones|tali]], tesseris, or money, and known as "Alea maior", or with nuts, beans and almonds, and known as "Alea minor"."''<ref>http://bit.ly/2Ri0UdS>
A medieval reference is found in the ''[[Der Renner|Renner]]'' by [[Hugo von Trimberg]] (verse 2695).
The game has similarities with the finger game of [[Morra (game)|Morra]] or ''Fingerlosen'', whereby one hides one's hand and then quickly folds or extends one's fingers and eckt and the other player has to guess how many fingers are folded or extended.<ref>
[http://bit.ly/2GCelkF ''Meyers Konversationslexikon'' 1885-1892, Stichwort Gerade und Ungerade]</ref>
Odds and Evens (''Gerade und Ungerade'') is included in the [[list of games prohibited in Austria-Hungary]] in 1904 by the Ministry of Justice.
==Adaption==
The name Even-Odd or EO (''Gerade und Ungerade'') was even given to a predecessor of [[roulette]] in the 18th century. This continues today in modern roulette in the bets on ''Pair'' and ''Impair''.
== See also ==
* [[Scissors, paper, stone]]
* [[Odds and evens (hand game)]]
== References ==
<References/>
[[Category:Gambling games]]
[[Category:Historical games]]
'''Odds and Evens''' is a simple [[gambling game]], involving a person taking various coins or other small object in the hand, closing it and another player guessing whether the number of coins or objects is [[odd or even]].
==History==
This game was known by the [[Greeks]] (as ''artiazein'') and [[Romans]] (as ''ludere par impar''). In the 1858 Krünitzlexikon it says:<ref>Krünitzlexikon von 1858</ref>
''"The game Odds and Evens was very common amongst the Romans and was played either with [[knucklebones|tali]], tesseris, or money, and known as "Alea maior", or with nuts, beans and almonds, and known as "Alea minor"."''<ref>http://bit.ly/2Ri0UdS>
A medieval reference is found in the ''[[Der Renner|Renner]]'' by [[Hugo von Trimberg]] (verse 2695).
The game has similarities with the finger game of [[Morra (game)|Morra]] or ''Fingerlosen'', whereby one hides one's hand and then quickly folds or extends one's fingers and eckt and the other player has to guess how many fingers are folded or extended.<ref>
[http://bit.ly/2GCelkF ''Meyers Konversationslexikon'' 1885-1892, Stichwort Gerade und Ungerade]</ref>
Odds and Evens (''Gerade und Ungerade'') is included in the [[list of games prohibited in Austria-Hungary]] in 1904 by the Ministry of Justice.
==Adaption==
The name Even-Odd or EO (''Gerade und Ungerade'') was even given to a predecessor of [[roulette]] in the 18th century. This continues today in modern roulette in the bets on ''Pair'' and ''Impair''.
== See also ==
* [[Scissors, paper, stone]]
* [[Odds and evens (hand game)]]
== References ==
<References/>
[[Category:Gambling games]]
[[Category:Historical games]]
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