barbotte

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1. uncountableA Canadian dice game akin to craps.

   Canadians prefer the game of barbotte...

   1949, Ernest Evred Blanche, You can't win: facts and fallacies about gambling

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   Barbotte is a Canadian version of Craps wherein the player wins if the two dice produce 3-3, 5-5, 6-6, or 6-5.

   1967, Richard A Epstein, The theory of gambling and statistical logic

   For the past century or so the most popular gambling games have been the card games of poker, stook and blackjack, and the dice games of craps and barbotte.

   1988, James H Marsh, The Canadian encyclopedia

   Games in such clubs ranged from poker, through roulette to location-specific pastimes such as the Montreal dice game barbotte.

   2003, Suzanne Morton, At Odds: Gambling and Canadians 1919–1969, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 49