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'''Cripple Wa''' was the owner of a floating [[Crap (game)|crap]] game, at which the most desperate gamblers in [[Ankh-Morpork]] habitually lost vast sums. He was once foolish enough to annoy [[Death]] who allowed Wa to see Him without the neural blinkers humans always use. He needed more than just to change his underwear...
[[Image:Crap.jpg|left]]
Mentioned in {{M}}, '''crap''' (singular) parodies [[Roundworld]]'s dice game {{wp|craps|craps}} which has been around since at least Roman times, but is played with three eight-sided dice, not two six-sided dice.


The first appearance of Cripple Wa is in fact in the first Discworld book, {{COM}}, in which he is one of the two beggars keeping watch on [[Pearl Dock]]. When the sharp eyes of [[Blind Hugh]] detect a stranger getting off a ship, Cripple Wa hurries off on his fast, nimble legs to carry the news. It is to be assumed that both beggars are what, in Victor Hugo's ''Hunchback of Notre Dame'' would be called "Bogus Cranks" (i.e. pretenders to disability for begging purposes).
In the game, the phrase [[Tuphal]]'s Eyes means a three (a single pip on each die, the lowest possible number), parodying the Roundworld phrase {{wp|snake eyes|snake eyes}}.


In the 2008 film version of ''The Colour of Magic'', Cripple Wa was played by cult actor Allin Kempthorne, best known as co-creator of the film 'The Vampires of Bloody Island'.
The most infamous Crap game on the Disc is that run by [[Cripple Wa]] in [[Ankh-Morpork]].


[[Category:Discworld characters|Wa, Cripple]]
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[[de:Rheumatischer Wa]]
 
Crap in the singular gives a, shall we say, scatalogical nomenclature to the game.
 
Dice with variable numbers of sides are not unknown on Roundworld. For an equal distribution of chance factors - i.e. an equal chance of rolling any of the spread of numbers - a prerequisite is that the dice be a regular polyhedron, and the familiar cube is but one of a number of these. While the consensus dice over the eras have been cubes, other variations used in [[Dungeons and Dragons]] and other board games include the tetrahedron - four sides; the decahedron - ten sides; the icosahedron - twenty sides; and of course the ''octahedron'' - [[7a]] sides. It is quite possible that Discworld gamblers have learnt the potential of the octahedral dice, and use this for preference.
 
[[Category: Discworld Games]]

Revision as of 06:53, 1 September 2017

Mentioned in Mort, crap (singular) parodies Roundworld's dice game craps which has been around since at least Roman times, but is played with three eight-sided dice, not two six-sided dice.

In the game, the phrase Tuphal's Eyes means a three (a single pip on each die, the lowest possible number), parodying the Roundworld phrase snake eyes.

The most infamous Crap game on the Disc is that run by Cripple Wa in Ankh-Morpork.

Annotation

Crap in the singular gives a, shall we say, scatalogical nomenclature to the game.

Dice with variable numbers of sides are not unknown on Roundworld. For an equal distribution of chance factors - i.e. an equal chance of rolling any of the spread of numbers - a prerequisite is that the dice be a regular polyhedron, and the familiar cube is but one of a number of these. While the consensus dice over the eras have been cubes, other variations used in Dungeons and Dragons and other board games include the tetrahedron - four sides; the decahedron - ten sides; the icosahedron - twenty sides; and of course the octahedron - 7a sides. It is quite possible that Discworld gamblers have learnt the potential of the octahedral dice, and use this for preference.

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