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1765 S. Johnson Plays of Shakespeare V. 44 The jeu de merelles was also a table-game.

1844 F. Metcalfe tr. W. A. Becker Gallus x. iii. 392 They had also other and more innocent games,..like the game of chess in the present day, and other table-games.

1864 Amer. Boy's Bk. Sports & Games 455 (heading) Table and toy games.

1905 W. Fiske Chess in Iceland 357 We have, as stated, confined ourselves wholly to table-games, that is those which are played on a board or other surface, on which some peculiar design is drawn.

1976 E. Ward Hanged Man xxviii. 180 Burnett..felt helplessness, a toy rabbit running on the magnetized tracks of a table game made for children.

2000 N.Y. Times Mag. 6 Aug. 34/2 His counselors remarked that he befriended no one and that they could not get him to participate in group activities like the video club or table games.

2004 Chess Jan. 50/3 The Japanese..have got their own version of chess (Shoghi) and a couple of other professional table games.

1951 Lowell (Mass.) Sunday Sun 7 Jan. 12/3 The state also collects license fees on table games, slot machines and race wire service facilities.

1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 6 Sept. d2 The daily average win from the casino's 97 table games amounted to $405,417.

1991 L. Sante Low Life ii. iv. 156 Meanwhile, on the Bowery, men like Charley Mook..and the b'hoy, George Rice were opening rooms that were entirely devoted to table games, which at this time were most prominently represented by roulette, twenty-one, chuck-a-luck, and faro.

2007 Stuff July 4 (advt.) Starring top table games like Blackjack, Jacks or Better, and Roulette, as well as other games such as Slots, Progressive Slots and Scratchcards.