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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrdenarius, post: 2306364, member: 75525&quot;]Knuckle-bones were used in children&#039;s games (like the pic above, thanks Chrismat 71), gambling (like we use dice today) and in divination. A couple of links that show this:</p><p>This web site has a couple of videos of children playing - </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;<a href="http://riowang.blogspot.com/2011/05/five-stones.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://riowang.blogspot.com/2011/05/five-stones.html" rel="nofollow">http://riowang.blogspot.com/2011/05/five-stones.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;“stone throwing”, was also <a href="http://elrincondepipina.blogspot.com/2009/01/la-payana.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://elrincondepipina.blogspot.com/2009/01/la-payana.html" rel="nofollow">a popular children’s game</a> in Argentina throughout the 20th century, players toss one of five stones and then pick up the others one by one before the tossed stone falls back. When all five have been picked up, they have to pick them up two by two, then three together plus one. Once they succesfully did it, there comes the <i>tanteo,</i> the “extra”, with a variety of tasks: for example, they also have to toss up the stones laying on the earth, or throw all five in the air and grasp them all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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