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Elizabethan Gaming and Gambling

  • Interesting Facts and information about Elizabethan Gaming and Gambling
  • Dice Games
  • Board Games
  • Sports & Blood Sports
  • Gaming and Gambling

Picture of Queen Elizabeth I

Elizabethan Gaming and Gambling

Elizabethan Gaming and Gambling
Gaming was another name for gambling during the Elizabethan era. Gaming and Gambling was a common and popular pastime in the period and how the Elizabethans spent much of their leisure. There were gambling dens and gambling houses. But the Elizabethans enjoyed gaming and gambling in any venue. inns. Taverns, Syews and even the theatres, such as the Globe, were used for this pastime!

 
 
 

Elizabethan Gaming and Gambling - The Sports and Games
Bets were placed on a variety of different games and sports. Board games, such as Tables (Backgammon) Card games such as One & Thirty (Blackjack), Dicing games such as Hazard (Craps) and Sporting Games such as Archery. Other Elizabethan

Elizabethan Gaming and Gambling - The Blood Sports
Elizabethans enjoyed spending their leisure time on gaming and gambling on Blood Sports. Elizabethan Bear & Bull Baiting  together with cock fighting were immensely popular sports during the Elizabethan era and vast amounts of money were placed on the outcome of these Blood sport contests.

 

Even Queen Elizabeth was pleased to spend an afternoon watching these bloodthirsty forms of entertainment.
For more details of these blood sports and leisure activities click
Elizabethan Bear & Bull Baiting

Elizabethan Gaming and Gambling

  • Interesting Facts and information about Elizabethan Gaming and Gambling
  • Dice Games
  • Board Games
  • Sports & Blood Sports
  • Gaming and Gambling
  • Gaming and Gambling
  • Bear Baiting
  • Bull Baiting
 
 

Elizabethan Elizabethan Gaming and Gambling
Details, facts and information about other Elizabethan Sports can be accessed via the Elizabethan Era Sitemap.

 

Board Gaming

Card Gaming

Dice Gaming

Sports Gaming

Chess

Tables

Nine Men's Morris

Alquerques

Fox & Geese

Philosophers Game

Shove Ha'penny

Shovelboard

One & Thirty

Ruff and Honors

Maw

Knucklebones

Hazard

Archery

Battledore

Bowls

Colf

Horseshoes

Pall Mall

Skittles

Tennis

For more details of these games and leisure activities click Elizabethan Games

 

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