CHINESE GAMES WITH DICE AND DOMINOES. 



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The main point of difference in the game as it exists to-day and as 

 described by Dr. Hyde is in the number of dice employed. The 

 enlarged form of the diagram is of minor importance, as he himself 

 says that the names of the officials written on the tablet are many or 

 few, according to the pleasure of the players. 



The game of .shing lihi fo and the Jai)anese game of many stations, 

 described under the name of sugorolu, I regard as having been derived 

 from the ancient Tartar game played Avith staves, which exists at the 



Fig. 14. 



PI) TSZ' (CHINESE). 



(From specimen in tlie .Museum of the Universily uf reunsylvania. ) 



jiresent day in Korea under the name of nyout-nol-M. As to the back- 

 gammon game, which I consider to be a develojmieut of the same game, 

 and which I have described as existing in Korea, China, Japan, Siam, 

 and the Malay Peninsula, I am uncertain whether it is indigenous, has 

 come over from India, or been acquired from the Portuguese or Span- 

 iards in the fifteenth or sixteenth century. 



PO TSZ'. 



The po tsz\ or covered die, is not, proi)erly, a die at all. It consists 

 of a small wooden cube (fig. Ha), which is i^laced in a square recep- 

 tacle in the top of a brass prism (fig. II r), over which a brass cover 



