Bunco

The American Heritage dictionary defines “Bunco” as a swindle in which an unsuspecting person is cheated.
Saturday night I had been suckered into playing Bunco. I have never before played Bunco and probably will not play again. Bunco appears to be a dice game for women in which they all cheat furiously. The best cheater wins. You keep your own score and the one with the highest score wins. I paid 5 bucks along with 15 other partygoers to see which woman would lie the best.
I think the secret to Bunco is that you have to lie in such a manner that it is believable to all the other Buncoers. An outlandish score will draw attention and likely detract from your future invitations to play Bunco. But a score that is on the fringe of believability gets you the cash.

Ok here is the guy version of gambling:
You don’t EVER EVER EVER get to keep your own score!
We generally hire a guy in a striped shirt or at least someone to act as a dealer in order to keep the whole affair as honest as possible.
If somebody else got to keep his own score we would automatically call BS regardless of what he claimed, even if it was “zero”.
Even if your boys backed you by saying that you were not cheating, I am still calling BS and waiting for you outside to get my money back.
Guys would never invent a gambling game that involved someone ringing a little silver bell and certainly not one that requires you to yell “Buncing!” at any point.

I want my five bucks back