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Food, Talk, Dice: Hey, It's Bunco Time!

Authors :
McDowell, Jeanne
Fonda, Daren
Pitluk, Adam
Van Dyk, Deirdre
Whitaker, Leslie
Source :
TIME Magazine; 12/23/2002, Vol. 160 Issue 26, p47, 1p, 3 Color Photographs
Publication Year :
2002

Abstract

Reports on the popularity of a dice game called bunco, which originated as a Victorian parlor game, and how it is played in the United States. Marketing of the game to women by toy marketer Leslie Crouch in 1996 under the title, It's Bunco Time!!!; Idea that women use bunco parties for nurturing camaraderie; Self-publication of the book, 'Dice with Spice: A Bunco Cookbook,' by Cathleen Rodriguez; Amount raised for research by the Bunco for Breast Cancer group in Illinois.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
0040781X
Volume :
160
Issue :
26
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
TIME Magazine
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
8672540