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What’s with the “(or subtract)” portion of the rules. How do you subtract dice?
Galenanderson ( talk) 05:43, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
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)
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)
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)
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)