Legitimate Cheating
E of the most popular diversions in the Navy is a game called " Ukers," which is played on the deck on a marked out course. It is really rather like a giant game of Ludo, with certain differences. The dice are about four or six inches
square and are tossed in a bucket or tum cask, the players stand on the board and are surrounded by an interested audience at least three deep, and the fun begins when the gante starts, for the first rule of the game is that if you can cheat and get away with it, that’s quite all right and merely shows your cleverness. So that the men who are backing one side will try by catcalls and " barracking" to divert the attention of the other side while some particular bit of dirty work is going on, and as both sides are constantly shouting out some comment or answer, the noise is more than considerable and the amusement value very high. Sometimes, if there are two or three ships together, one ship will send a challenge to another, to come over and have a game, and then both teams dress up in a weird and wonderful assortment of fancy dresses, and they really settle down to a cut-throat contest.-("Hobbies and Occupations on Shipboard." Mrs. O, J. Gerard, 2YA, May 1.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 152, 22 May 1942, Page 3
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226Legitimate Cheating New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 152, 22 May 1942, Page 3
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