RULES OF THE GAME
One plays with 2 dice. Whoever throws the highest eyes, plays first. Decide upfront how much each of you puts in the pot.
Whoever throws ten on the first throw, goes to 15.
Whoever lands on a crown number, will count their throw double.
Whoever lands on an obituary number (white on black), will hand 2 to the pot.
Whoever lands on a celebratory number (white on red), will receive 2 from the pot.
Whoever lands on 94 will throw one dice and count its eyes across 100 and back.
Whoever lands on 100, the Dam in Amsterdam, wins the pot, but shares a quarter of it amongst the losers.
Whoever ends closest to 100, starts the next game.
Left bottom corner: 1584. The Prince of Orange assassinated by Balthazar Gerards at Delft.
No. 5 1572. The Watergeuzen take over Den Briel.
No. 9 1579. Union of Utrecht.
No. 12 1584. Prince William I assassinated.
No. 17 1600. Battle of Nieuwpoort.
Right bottom corner: 1672. Prince William III reconciles De Ruyter and Tromp, in the welfare of the distressed homeland.
No. 22 1625. Prince Maurits dies.
No. 28 1647. Prince Frederik Hendrik dies.
No. 29 1648. Peace of Munster.
Top right corner: 1795. Prince William V leaves the homeland, since the French have declared war to him and not to the people.
No. 31 1650. Prince William II dies.
No. 36 1672. The Disaster Year.
No. 39 1702. Prince William III dies.
No. 41 1711. Prince Johan Willem Friso drowns.
Top left corner: 1898. Our Queen Wilhelmina, hope of the nation, coronated at Amsterdam.
No. 47 1713. Peace of Utrecht
No. 52 1747. William IV becomes stadtholder.
No. 54 1751. Prince William IV dies.
No. 61 1766. William V becomes an adult.
No. 65 1795. The Oranges leave the homeland.
No. 71 1810. Our nation becomes part of France.
No. 74 1813. Orange above all.
No. 79 1815. Battle of Waterloo.
No. 84 1840. King William II.
No. 91 1848. Revision of the Constitution.
No. 93 1849. King William II dies.
No. 94 Halt! With one stone.
No. 96 1890. King William III dies.
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