Talk:Shut the box

What’s with the “(or subtract)” portion of the rules. How do you subtract dice?

Galenanderson (talk) 05:43, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Confusing rules; general structure comment
Thank you for writing this article -- this is the kind of game that our family loves to play together.

This article seems to have been written pretty quickly and is a bit sketchy on the rules, using bullet points and abbreviated language where a detailed explanation would be most helpful. The 45 penalty points and the "long game" method are especially confusing. Penalty points in general, and who scores which points when... I'm just not sure how to play.

The structure of this article overall seems a little scrambled: it would seem to me to make more sense to put History first, and combine Rules and Play into a more detailed Play section, possibly with some examples.

There are three references to people scoring a whipeout (wipeout?) but no explanation as to what a whipeout is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.204.75.98 (talk) 17:46, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

History
I was looking through commons and ran across this: Image:Judith Leyster A Game of Tric Trac.jpg. Since it's a seventeenth century painting, it at least suggests a rather longer history than is described here. Goldfritha 16:57, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Here's an even older one, 16th century: Image:Trictrac lenain.jpg  Goldfritha 17:04, 14 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Most references I see say that Tric Trac is a form of backgammon, not Shut The Box. I don't know why Tric Trac is listed as an alternate name in this article at all -- is there any source for this? It's a separate game as far as I can tell. I think I will remove it from the article for now. ManekiNeko | Talk 10:31, 12 August 2009 (UTC)


 * On the contrary, Tric Trac (or Tric-Trac or Trictrac) appears to be one of the most common alternate names for this game - for example it's being sold as such on Amazon.com. My own grandparents always referred to the game as Tric Trac. I admit it is confusing that there is a backgammon variant with the same name, but the history of either game doesn't seem well-known. 71.227.121.82 (talk) 01:28, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

My father, Sherman Bush was a merchant seaman during the war, in the late 40's until the mid 50's we were in S. Africa, he was a craftsman and had made his own "Shut the Box" (that was what they called it) in the late 40's and it became a popular game down there.MsChrissi (talk) 22:06, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

external link overload
I doubt we need a link to 10 different places to play shut the box online or on your phone, especially the "new versions coming soon!" ad-like terminology. Should probably strip to links to information about the game rather than commercial versions, since there are countless and including only a few feels like advertising — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lexprod (talk • contribs) 05:07, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Will be removing all of the external links except the master's traditional games link since it does provide a set of rules, though it's also a webstore so something much more independent would be best. All other links are just places to download or buy the game, violating WP:NOTADVERTISING Lexprod (talk) 03:58, 14 January 2012 (UTC)