According to the World Bunco Association -- yes, there is one -- the game dates to the mid-1800s. The original name of the game was 8-Dice Cloth, and it was popular in England in the 18th century.

JoAnn Stellwagen, left, and Rosemary Schroader watch Carol Podkulski throw the dice during a recent bunco game in Mokena. The women have gotten together each month for 55 years around the game ...

Bunco—a dice game that makes Yahtzee look complicated! HOW-TOs, Programming, Shell Scripting I haven't dug into any game programming for a while, so I thought it was high time to do something in that ...

A group of women have been playing the dice game Bunco on the first Friday of each month, September through May, for the past 25 years. (Kelly Sullivan/Peninsula Clarion via AP) Kelly Sullivan ...

The game of Bunco is simple, though there are some variations. The most common version simply uses three dice and roughly 16 players, although almost any number of people can play.

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Napa's Bunco Beauties — a group whose rambunctiousness rivals that of a university sorority house — are 12 women who meet regularly to play Bunco, a team-oriented dice game.

Bunco is a dice game typically played in groups of twelve. According to the World Bunco Association, Bunco originated in England during the 18th century.

It's a mere game of dice and chance, but it's survived at least two centuries. In some cases, it's been outlawed. Bunco began as a popular 18th-century family-friendly parlor game in England. Also ...