picked up dice – Gambling-History.com https://gambling-history.com History of Gambling in the U.S. Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:34:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gambling-history.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/cropped-Kings-Castle-Chip-32x32.png picked up dice – Gambling-History.com https://gambling-history.com 32 32 Quick Fact – Dice Mice https://gambling-history.com/quick-fact-dice-mice/ https://gambling-history.com/quick-fact-dice-mice/#respond Wed, 12 Jun 2019 22:16:28 +0000 https://gambling-history.com/?p=315 Early 1900s

In The Silver State (Nevada), casinos hired men for the sole job of picking up dice that rolled off the game tables. Only these workers were allowed to touch the cubes to keep cheaters from swapping them with crooked ones.

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