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A girl holding up a teetotum on Pieter Brueghel's Children's Games (1560) A teetotum (T-totum) is a form of gambling spinning top .1 It has a polygonal body marked with letters or numbers, which indicate the result of each spin. In its earliest form the body was square (in some cases via a stick through a regular six-sided die ), marked on the four sides by the letters A ( Lat. aufer , take) indicating that the player takes one from the pool, D (Lat. depone , put down) when a fine has to be paid, N (Lat. nihil , nothing), and T (Lat. totum , all), when the whole pool is to be taken. Joseph Strutt , who was born in 1749, mentions the teetotum as used in games when he was a boy . Other accounts give such letters as P , N , D ( dimidium , half), and H or T or other combinations of letters. Other combinations of letters that could be found were: NG , SZ , TA , TG , NH , ND , M . Which stood for (In Latin): ZS - Zona Salve , save all TA - Tibi Adfer , take all NH - Nihil Habeas , nothing left LS - L (i.e., 50) Solve , save 50 ND - Nihil Dabis , nothing happens Teetotum survives today as dreidel , a Jewish game played on Hanukkah . Some modern teetotums have six or eight sides, such as the commercial game Put & Take.2
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A six-sided Chinese teetotum A teetotum (or T-totum ) is a form of gambling spinning top that is known across Europe from Roman times.It has a polygonal body - originally four-sided - marked with letters or numbers, which indicate the result of each spin.The name originates from Latin Totum meaning 'all' which was marked by a T on one of the four sides and indicated that the winning player could take all the played tokens. 'TeeToTum' (Tee To Tum) was the name of a sports ground in Stamford Hill, London in the 19th century.The Hackney TeeToTum cricket team played there, and it also hosted athletics events such as the professional '25 Mile World Championships'.
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A six-sided Chinese teetotum A teetotum (or T-totum ) is a form of gambling spinning top . It has a polygonal body marked with letters or numbers, which indicate the result of each spin.
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Spinning lot, generating random outcomes For the sports ground, see Tee-To-Tum .A teetotum A six-sided Chinese teetotum A teetotum (or T-totum ) is a form of spinning top most commonly used for gambling games. It has a polygonal body marked with letters or numbers, which indicate the result of each spin. Usage goes back to (at least) ancient Greeks and Romans, with the popular put and take gambling version going back to medieval times.Teetotum at the Encyclopædia Britannica
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Spinning lot, generating random outcomes For the sports ground, see Tee-To-Tum . A teetotum A teetotum (or T-totum ) is a form of spinning top most commonly used for gambling games. It has a polygonal body marked with letters or numbers, which indicate the result of each spin. Usage goes back to (at least) ancient Greeks and Romans, with the popular put and take gambling version going back to medieval times. The teetotum has variants such as the pirinola, used in Latin America, and the dreidel , used in Jewish communities during the holiday of Hanukkah . Teetotum at the Encyclopædia Britannica
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form of spinning top most commonly used for gambling games
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