'Ricking The Dice?' Anyone Heard This Term?

[andres]

A friend said that when he was young they used to say this when throwing the dice when playing board games.

[gness]

Well I have searched, Andres and am no wiser. I’m curious now so please post if you come up with an answer.

[Hazlinny]

I have heard of flicking the dice ??

[gness]

I could only come across rolling which everyone knows. What is flicking?

[10ClarionSt]

When we lived in Collyhurst, Manchester, in the 1950's, we would play Rickers. It was holding 2 pieces of wood between the first 2 fingers, then flicking, or rattling them, to get the same sound as cstanettes. Twas called Rickers.

[10ClarionSt]

^^ castanettes ^^

[Ken4155]

^
Given that info, i suppose 'ricking the dice' is shaking them in one's hand before rolling them. The sound produced would be similar to castanets.

[Hopkirk]

Rigging the dice?
ie cheating.

[andres]

Thanks everyone for answers. I will pass these onto my friend later today. I looked and searched Google but couldn't find anything. We did play a game called Risk but I don't remember using the word- 'ricking'.

[Peter Pedant]

today readers I am a sociolinguist.
and I wondered about words uttered whilst rolling dice

not much - orrrr - looking in the wrong place
BUT
actions ( we call this form of communication 'semiology' - you know two fingers meaning frack etc)
are
https://nerdist.com/article/15-of-the-craziest-superstitions-about-dice/

so, no words to empower the throw, but plentry of actions ( and things not to do = taboos)

[Peter Pedant]

rigging

I wondered about rigging - I put my sociolinguist hat back on
this (rigging) is a linguistic pair with ricking ( differs only by a sounded/unsounded consonant - glazier,glacier, ) and may well be connected.

confounded by no oone else ricks

schoolyard songs - the Opies wrote a lot on this in the 60s, 70s

https://www.opiearchive.org
They were well known for their many classic books, including the Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1951), The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (1959),

this is not too highbrow is it?

[andres]

Interesting p/p. Rigging does sound like ricking.

[bobbinwales]

There is a term used nowadays called rickrolling. Never gonna give you up ...

[andres]

Well I have searched in vain. Can't find the answer. It looks like 10ClarionSt @ 09,25 and [email protected] might have the most feasible answers. =Thanks both of you.
bobbinwales---rickrolling is interesting but my friend is referring to the 1960s onwards.