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Dice
The wooden set could have easily been homemade and are very light in weight. It is important to remember, too, that some people in the 19th century
thought playing with dice was wrong because it was too similar to
gambling. Hence, for children's games
needing some way to advance the pieces a random number of spaces, instead
of rolling dice like we would today, they would spin a small top called a
teetotum which was marked with numbers.
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Two sets of dice are shown in the picture: a pewter set and
a wooden set. Soldiers could have made a set of dice similar to the
pewter ones by hammering their
bullets into cube shapes. However, by making these from pewter you avoid
the potential problems that come from handling lead.