Vulture. The highest throw in Greece counted 40, and was called the Euripides. It was probably a combination throw, since more than four sixes could not be thrown at a single time. The lowest throw, both in Greece and Rome, was the Dog. The game is called: amastarrika by the basque people. Or bostarika, bostariketa, boxtarikuan, uztarika, amaxarri In Spain: Tabas is a game of the second type In Italy: Il gioco delle 5 pietre North Africa Versions of the game are popular among children of Amazigh origin across North Africa, and goes by a wide variety of names in the various Tamazight dialects. In northern Morocco: imadqan, imzreqfan, ibnathin, izla, or tibolatin In central Morocco/High Atlas: tibikkas, thisb'iyin, or isgur In southern Morocco, particularly Sous: tiqolla, iguntern, ishban, oughayn, oukarn, ibran, or iqoushan In eastern Algeria: ijorb'an (in Kabylie), or ilqafen (in the Aurès region, including Chaoui dialect) In southern Algeria: issiwa, tikwaten or ikwa (in the Tuareg dialect) In parts of the Sahara: khmissa America The two forms of the game are present, the throw and catch version is called kapichua, payana, payanga, payanca, or payaya and it is a child's game played with stone pebbles, while the throw and gamble based on position it's called jogo do osso or taba and are played with a single cow knucklebone. Of the first type this game is called: In Mexico: paxaque, pinaco, pinyexes, matatena, chibcha In Brazil: Pipoquinha, Jogo das Pedrinhas, Belisca, Cinco Marias, Jogo do Osso, Onente, Bato, Arriós, Telhos, Chocos, Aleija Mão, Nécara In Peru: yaces In Cuba: yaquis In Costa Rica: “jackses” In Argentina and Uruguay: payana From the second type: In Brazil: Jogo do osso (game of the bone) In Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Uruguay: taba Modern game The modern game may use a rubber ball, and the knucklebones (jacks), typically a set of ten, are made of metal or plastic. There are variants of how the players decide who goes first: it is usually through "flipping" (the set of jacks is placed in cupped hands, flipped to the back of the hands, and then back to cupped hands again; the player who keeps the most from falling goes first), but may be via ip dip, or eeny, meeny, miny, moe, or a variant thereof. To set up the game, the jacks are scattered loosely into the play area. The players in turn bounce the