Materials Required:—

A small block of soft wood, an old penholder, a sharp penknife, a gimlet.

This is made from a square block of wood cut sharply to a point with a peg sunk well into a close-fitting hole. Each flat side of the top has on it a letter or a number, and the game is to spin it round, and according to which letter or number falls upward each player takes or makes so many counters to the pool. The letters generally used are—

P==pay one, N==nothing, T==take one, W==win all. Beans or counters are usually played for.