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CHINESE GAMES WITH DICE AND DOMINOES
Stewart Culin
Annual Report of the U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C.:
United States Government Printing Office, pp. 491-537
Clickable List Of Games With Dice And Dominoes |
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| CHINESE DICE GAMES |
| Traditional Chinese Dice |
| Sz' 'ng luk - four, five, six |
| Kon mín yéung - pursuing sheep |
| Chák t'ín kau - throwing heaven and nine |
| Pat chá- grasping eight |
| Chong ün ch'au - Game of the Chief of the Literati |
| BACKGAMMON |
| Shéung luk - double sixes (Korean backgammon - ssang-ryouk) |
| Saka - backgammon in Siam |
| Tabal - backgammon in Johore |
| Sugoroku - backgammon in Japan |
| Shing kun t'o - promotion of the officials (promotion of Mandarins) |
| Pò tsz' - covered die |
| K'ung pò - current treasure |
| DOMINOES |
| Kwat p'ái - Chinese dominoes - bone tablets |
| Tiú ü- to angle |
| Ts'ung shap - to dispute for tens |
| Kim tái shap - to grasp many tens (and) K'ap shap - to complete tens |
| Naú tín kau- turning heavens and nines |
| Tá tín kau - to play heavens and nines |
| Hoi t'áp - to open the pagoda (solitaire game) |
| Fortune Telling With Dominoes |
| Round Dominoes From Fuhchau |
| KOREAN DOMINOES |
| Korean Dominoes |
| Ho-hpai - barbarian tablets |
| Tjak-ma-tchi-ki - pair making |
| Kko-ri-pout-tchi-ki - tail joining |
| Kōl-ye-si - Gambling House Game |
| Ryong-hpai - dragon tablets solitaire (Chinese: lung p'ai) & Ke-pouk-hpai - tortoise tablets solitaire (Chinese: kwai p'ái) |
| Sn-syo-tyen - personally counting divination (Chinese: shan shò chím) & O-koan- 5 gateways (Chinese: 'ng kwán) |
| OTHER DOMINOE GAMES |
| Burmese and Shan Dominoes |
| Siamese Dominoes |
| Eskimo (Inuit) Dominoes |
| Miscellaneous Dominoes |
| Introduction of Dominoes into Europe |
| Invention of The Game of Dominoes |
| Dominoes - A Form of Dice |
Last update June 12, 2005
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