“Giocare alla morra!”
Take an interesting look at what scholars and travelers have discovered during their visit in Sardinia during the early part of the 20th century. The photo and caption were taken from an article in The National Geographic Magazine written by Helen Dunstan Wright, August 1916 Volume XXX Number Two.
The game of “morra” holds for the man of Italian blood the same allurements that poker holds for some Americans, and that “craps” has for the southern darky. So excited do the morra players become over the hazards of this, their national betting pastime, the tragedies not infrequently result; hence the police frown upon the practice, but always with a certain fond indulgence. It is played entirely with the fingers and consists of trying to guess how many fingers your opponent will hold out at the instant he acts. It is more difficult than it sounds.
