When the Knucklebones Fell: A Gambler's Moment in an Aegean Taverna

https://bizzmarkblog.com/how-1890s-riverboat-gambling-adopted-provably-fair-mechanics-and-changed-betting-forever/

You are sitting at a wooden table by the harbor, listening to waves slap the quay. A bowl of small, ivory-colored bones sits between you and an old man who calls them knucklebones