The words “dice game” conjure an image of shady characters crouching in a dark alley trying to throw sevens, not women who live on cul-de-sacs, sharing neighborhood news between rolls of the dice.

Not all leagues play bunco the same way, but here's how one Central New York league plays. Get more details on rules at www.worldbunco.com. What you need: Imagine this. You drive up to a well-lighted ...

Eleanore Baccellieri taps a bell, the kind short-order cooks use, and just like that the 12 women stop chatting and head to their seats. "Girls, time to play," Baccellieri announces. "Time to play." ...

Grab a glass of wine. Try the olive dip and chat with a neighbor on a fluffy sofa. And why you’re at it, toss the dice. The game’s called bunco, but no one’s fooled. It’s Girls Night Out for the ...

Bunco — a dice game that has been around since the 1800s — has seen its share of ups and downs in popularity, but it's having a resurgence in interest here. Bunco is played mostly by women — and a lot ...

Dice can heal. Just ask Cristina Gwynn. When Gwynn learned that an upcoming surgery would leave her incapacitated for a few months, she was in dire need of a pre-procedure ladies night out. But the ...

I haven't dug into any game programming for a while, so I thought it was high time to do something in that realm. At first, I thought "Halo as a shell script?", but then I came to my senses. Instead, ...

Napa's Bunco Beauties — a group whose rambunctiousness rivals that of a university sorority house — are 12 women who meet regularly to play Bunco, a team-oriented dice game. "We started playing Bunco ...

Evelyn Corrales gets together twice a month with the “bunco babes” to enjoy friendships developed over a lifetime. Corrales is one of three original members of the group of 12 women who celebrated a ...