Mumchance or Momchaunce was a 16th-century dice or card game involving betting. The game involved silence or bluff, the first syllable "mum" is related to the phrase "keep mum". A version played was cards was sometimes identified as "mumchance-at-cards". The word can also mean mummery. Allusions to the game, usually referring to exposure to foolish risk, appear in plays and correspondence. Francis Beaumont of Bedworth wrote to Anne Newdigate, that he "having before more unadvisedlie than wiselie haszarded so worthy a Ladies favoure upon a mum chaunce, my diseased soule ... could finde no rest".
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