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GOOSE (GAME OF)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 243 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GOOSE (See also:GAME OF) , an See also:ancient See also:French game, said to have been derived from the Greeks, very popular at the See also:close of the See also:middle ages. It was played on a piece of card-See also:board upon which was See also:drawn a fantastic See also:scroll, called the jardin de l'Oie (goose-See also:garden), divided into 63 spaces marked with certain emblems, such as See also:dice, an See also:inn, a See also:bridge, a See also:labyrinth, &c. The See also:emblem inscribed on 1 and 63, as well as every ninth space between, was a goose. The See also:object was to See also:land one's See also:counter in number 63, the number of spaces moved through being determined by throwing two dice. The counter was advanced or retired according to the space on which it was placed. For instance if it rested on the inn it must remain there until each adversary, of which there might be several, had played twice; if it rested on the See also:death's See also:head the player must begin over again; if it went beyond 63 it must be retired a certain number of spaces. The game was usually played for a stake, and See also:special fines were exacted for resting on certain spaces. At the end of the 18th See also:century a variation of the game was called the jeu de la Revolution FranQaise.

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