Cachito Books
As in any other pursuit, it is recommended that you read some books about Cachito before playing online. When looking for books on the subject, expand your search to games like Perudo, Dudo, Liar’s dice, and Santaba, all of them being virtually the same game as Cachito. Another approach to finding books about Cachito is to look for books on themes related to the Inca culture or to South American games.
Here are a few recommended readings on Cachito:
1. “Secrets of Ancient Cultures: The Inca” by Arlette N. Braman. This book is dedicated to the Inca culture as a whole and not to Cachito in particular. Nonetheless, it does devote a few pages to explaining the bluffing dice game. Have in mind though that this is a rather simple book oriented toward younger readers and more fitted to the activities and crafts/project book genre than anything else.
2. “Dice Games Properly Explained” by Reiner Knizia. Perhaps the most fertile of contemporary game designers, Knizia brings to the market a comprehensive book on dice games that includes Cahchito (actually Perudo) in its last chapter under a section entitled “Bluffing Games”. The book is quite simple to understand and very helpful, concise and straight forward in its explanations and tips.
3. “The new Games Treasury: More than 500 Indoor and Outdoor Favorites with Strategies, Rules, and Traditions” by Merilyn Simonds Mohr and Roberta Cooke. Chapter five of this book is dedicated to dice games including some helpful information on Cachito.
This Inca dice game has been a favorite for many hundreds of years in South American culture but you may find it somewhat difficult to find well-written books on the subject in English. No doubt that with Cachito’s inclusion in the online gamming industry we will start witnessing a more complete series of resources related to this great dice game in the near future.
A tip about search online for books on Cachito: when doing a search, pay special attention to the content of the results that will turn up for the word “Cachito” so you will not be misled. The term is in fact widely utilized in Latin American cultures as a term meaning “a little” or “spike” and “horn like”, as well as being a proper name for places, a food similar to croissants, a famous song under that name, popular best-selling books, and nick names of famous and not so famous sportsmen.