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Food, Talk, Dice: Hey, It's Bunco Time!
- Source :
- TIME Magazine; 12/23/2002, Vol. 160 Issue 26, p47, 1p, 3 Color Photographs
- Publication Year :
- 2002
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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