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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1893. 



If a player takes 2 rounds with the chi tsiin or 2 rounds with 2 

 corresponding pairs in 2 successive games, the amounts that must be 

 paid him by the other players are doubled, and if he takes 3 such rounds 

 in succession they are trebled. In gambling houses the winner of a 

 round with the chi tsiin must put the value of I point and the winner 

 with 2 corresponding pairs of 2 points in a box for the house. This 

 constitutes the only revenue derived by gambling houses from thegame. 



It is said that the custom of requiring the winner to take at least 2 



Pig. 20. 

 ARRANGEMENT OF DOMINOES TN OAME OF HOI T'Ap. 



tricks is an innovation of the last hundred years. Formerly the person 

 taking the last trick became the winner, although it was the only trick 

 taken by him during the game. 



HOI t'ap. 



Roi Vdp, "to open the pagoda," is a game of solitaire played with 

 dominoes. One set of dominoes are placed face down and arranged in 

 the form of a pyramid, with 2 pieces at the apex and i, 5, G, 7, and S, 

 in the successive rows beneath, as shown in tbe diagram on the left of 

 fig. 20. 



The center domino. A, in the third row from the top, is then pushed 

 down, taking with it the small pyramid composed of the pieces B, C of 



