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    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

    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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