8/20/2010 Headin’ to Wilmington

We headed to Wilmington for the weekend today. We left here around 1:30 and made it to my parent’s by four with a few stops.

After dinner we went to the Elks Club and met up with my brother and sister-in-law, Billy and Michelle. The main purpose was to learn a new game. After visiting for a bit the dice were gathered and the call for players was put out. Sixteen Elk members answered the call. We all gathered around the pool table and each of laid $3.00 in singles in front of us. Billy explained the rules of LCR to the newcomers. The first player rolls three dice. On each dice is either a “dot” which is what you want, the letter L which stands for Left, the letter C which stands for Center and the letter R which stands for ______?______ . Anybody? Anybody got a guess? Yes, R stands for Right. Everyone got that? Ok, moving on. The first player throws the dice and let’s say he rolls a dot, L and C. He would take one dollar bill and pass it to the player on his Left. He would take another dollar bill and pass it to the center of the table which is the “pot”. He keeps the third bill because the last die was a “dot”. So you can see why dots are good. You keep your money! Now while you are throwing the dice you have all the players to the left calling out LEFT, LEFT, LEFT! And all the players to your right calling out, RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT. They want your money! If you throw 2 L’s and a C and all your money is gone, you still aren’t out of the game because the player on either side of you is going to be passing you money at some point. If you were to throw two dots and a C, you would keep two dollars and one would go the center and next time you would throw just two die. Of course the C’s take the money out of circulation and in the end its between two players who still have money to see who the last person with a dollar in front of them is. That person gets the pot! In our case, $48.00. Its a faced pace game, its really, really fun and for $3.00 it doesn’t break the bank. I could see playing with 20 people but more than that it would be really crowded. You can buy this game in Walgreen’s for $5.99. It can be found where the playing cards are. We’ll be taking this game to Quail Run this winter as I’ve already gotten a set of the dice.

We played the game twice and then sat and talked with Billy and Michelle for a while longer. Since our day had started early and they had to be up early on Saturday we called it a night around ten and went back to my parent’s place.