That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 01, 2020

There went Pedro’s Social Security check.

“Close but no cigar – You’re out of the Dutch Masters commercial.”

Pascual had just lost his best horse on a dice roll, oh and his wife as well.

“I say sir, those may be LSD sugar cubes, but are they worth an entire fortnight’s wages?”

“It’s true, Pablo. Using new math that 4 and 2 now equal 7. You lose again.”

“Come on, Manolo, you lost, it’s your turn to pay for the next round of beers.”

There’s one born every minute.

oh, man, snake eyes again…?

“Heads I win, Tails you lose. That’s just the way it is Alfredo. I can’t help if you never win. Maybe you’ll have better luck next week….We’re going to have a gun fight, bring your knife.”

MENSA APPLICATION TEST: “If dividing these two sugar cubes into seven equal amounts equals the distance from Bombay to Paris, what is my age?” / “62!” / “Correct, how did you arrive at your answer?” / “I have a brother who is thirty one and he is only half crazy.”

It was Stagger Lee and Billy, two men who gambled late Stagger Lee threw seven, Billy swore that he threw eight.

Painter trying to use up all the brown paint he got at the Lowe’s 20% off sale.

When my wife and I were newly married (and poor), we played Yahtzee frequently. She gets real excited when she gets 5-of-a-kind. Maybe too excited. The sound she made one night, I’ve only heard her make during one other activity. I still pick at her about it.

Unfortunately, Pedro’s lucky number was 14.

He’s a genius – remarkably stable/ yet he has to admit he’s unable/ to account for his loss/ on every toss../ (it’s the magnet under the table).

You won, now you have to be president.

“Oh my head! Dice is so complicated! Tell me again about the rule where you get to assign any value you want to a die that rolls off the table…”

See- you’re only supposed to eat one cube.

How White House aides decide who gives tRUMP the daily intelligence briefing…

“Now then, the cosign of the total of these dice are equal to but not more than the side you can’t see, see?”

It was the last straw. Blaise vowed to invent the mathematics of probability to figure out why he never won.

The Dice Players or the Dice: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simo-Gomez,-Els-daus.jpg 

has info and links that point to more info about this painting. File history has strip coloration image.

 

https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/g/gomez_polo.htm 

https://prabook.com/web/simo.gomez/1892521 

https://www.enciclopedia.cat/ec-gec-0030426.xml 

http://dbe.rah.es/biografias/10950/simo-gomez-polo 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, Google Chrome can automatically translate as necessary), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. First work by him used here.

 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2482 (July 1, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

The young fellow standing is so pleased because he just won a ticket on the Titanic’s maiden voyage.

in the den of thieves everyone was cheating and they all knew it, what fun!

“… and then we went and saw Jebediah… or was it Jeremiah?… No I think it was actually John…”

OK … so I wasn’t could at counting cards. I was SURE that I would be ok at counting dice …