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Card game:Riverboat Showdown

Whitman Publishing Co.1976

The Strong National Museum of Play

The Strong National Museum of Play
Rochester, United States

Whitman's Riverboat Showdown is an example of a gambling simulation game, which allowed for the fun of a classic card game and betting with chips, but not real gambling. Illustrations and terminology of nineteenth-cantury riverboats and gambling decorate the game box and the materials. The game is actually quite unique; it doesn't resemble poker at all but rather allows for fast-pace adding and subtracting from the communal chip pile, or the "kitty."

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  • Title: Card game:Riverboat Showdown
  • Creator: Whitman Publishing Co.
  • Date Created: 1976
  • Location: Racine, WI
  • Subject Keywords: riverboat
  • Type: Card Games
  • Medium: printed cardstock, cardboard, paper
  • Object ID: 112.40070
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