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Knucklebones

Knucklebones, also known as scatter jacks, snobs, astragaloi (singular: astragalus), tali, dibs, fivestones, jacks, jackstones, or jinks, among many other names, is a game of dexterity played with a number of small objects that are thrown up, caught, and manipulated in various manners. It is ancient in origin and is found in various cultures worldwide.

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Hand game
Skills
Fine motor skill

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Knucklebones

Nodes104
Edges103
Triples48
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.019231
Components1

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Knucklebones

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related to Central Asia · 17
Knucklebones → Central Asian, Humanity, In Central Asian, Intangible Cultural Heritage, It, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, List, Manchu, Mongolians, Tajik, The Mongolian, There, They, Turkish, Tuvan, UNESCO
related to Austronesia · 11
Knucklebones → All, During, For, In, Instead, It, Other, Philippines, The, These, This
related to External links · 7
Knucklebones → Archived, Jacks, Media, Wayback Machine, Wikimedia Commons Media, Wikimedia CommonsStatistical, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
related to history · 6
Knucklebones → Astragalus, BCE, However, In, It, The
related to Modern game · 5
Knucklebones → All, An, The, There, To
Genres · 1
Knucklebones → Hand game
Skills · 1
Knucklebones → Fine motor skill

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game stones jacks one called played player first hand throw also names number two stone pick known among ancient various

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
KnucklebonesGenresHand game1.00infobox
KnucklebonesSkillsFine motor skill1.00infobox
Knucklebonesrelated to AustronesiaIn0.60section
Knucklebonesrelated to AustronesiaPhilippines0.60section
Knucklebonesrelated to AustronesiaThe0.60section
Knucklebonesrelated to AustronesiaIt0.60section
Knucklebonesrelated to AustronesiaInstead0.60section
Knucklebonesrelated to AustronesiaDuring0.60section
Knucklebonesrelated to AustronesiaThese0.60section
Knucklebonesrelated to AustronesiaAll0.60section
Knucklebonesrelated to AustronesiaOther0.60section
Knucklebonesrelated to AustronesiaFor0.60section

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