e/Pig (dice)

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has gloss	eng: Pig is a jeopardy (risk) dice game played with one die. In jeopardy dice games, a player decides to roll or hold (stop rolling). A player that rolls risks a turn total, and may gain a higher turn total or score nothing. A player that holds scores the turn total.
has gloss	eng: Pig is a simple folk jeopardy dice game first described in print by John Scarne in 1945 (Scarne, John. 1945. Scarne on Dice. Harrisburg, PA: Military Service Publishing Co.). As with many games of folk origin, Pig is played with many rule variations. Commercial variants of Pig include Pass the Pigs, , and . Pig is commonly used by mathematics teachers to teach probability concepts.
lexicalization	eng: Pig
instance of	e/Dice game

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