CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 



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to a comparatively late period in the history of games aiul divination. 

 The almost universal object for determining number, and thence by 

 counting, place or direction, is three or more wooden staves, usually 

 flat on one side and rounded upon the other. Xumerical counts are 

 attributed to their several falls. A typical game in which these staves 

 are employed is found in No. 1 — the Korean game of Nyout. 



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Fig. 2. 

 NYOUT HPAN. NYOUT BOARD. 



Inscribed with Gbinese verse. 

 Korea. 



Cat. No. 16497, Museum of Archeology, University of Penusylvania. From Korean Games. 



1. Nyout. Korea. 

 (a) Board and staves.^ 



»Nos. 16487, 16898, Mus. Arcli., Univ. Peun. The board exhibited (fig. 1) is painted 

 upon a sheet of Korean paper, 221 by 26 inches, and wa.s made for the author by Mr. 

 Pak Young Kiu, secretary of the Koyal Korean Commission to the Worhl's Columbian 

 Exposition, Chicago, in the summt-r of 1893. Another (fig. 2) has Chinese charac- 



