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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1893. 



KE-POUK-HPAI. 



In this sj'Steiu, called kepouk-hpai (Chinese, hwai p^di), "Tortoise 

 tablets," the 32 dominoes are laid face down to form a representation 



of a tortoise (fig. 21), with 2 pieces 

 at head and tail and 2 for legs at 

 each of the 4 corners. The pieces 

 at these extremities are turned 

 face up, followed by those marked 

 A, B, C, I), and mated according to 

 the Korean system, (pi. 9). The 

 player loses when he fails to mate 

 all the pieces. 



SIN-SYO-TYEN. 



Sin-syo-tyen (Chinese, sh<in sho 

 chim), "personally counting divi- 

 nation," is a kind of fortune telling; 

 practiced with dominoes. The in- 

 quirer shuffles a set of dominoes 

 face down and arranges them side 

 by side in a line. He then turns 

 them face up, preserving the ar- 

 rangement, and selects as many of 

 the combinations referred to on 

 pages 523, 524, as can be formed by 



contiguous pieces. The sum of the numbers there given, in connection 



with the combinations thus formed is noted, 



and the operation twice repeated. The three 



results are added together, and if their sum 



amounts to 32, the number of the domino pieces, 



the augury is very good; more or less being 



estimated proportionally good or indifferent. 



ARRANGEMENT OF DOMINOES 

 "TORTOISE TABLETS : 



.' KE-POUK-HPAI, 

 KOREA. 



O-KOAN. 



Another popular method of divination with 

 •dominoes is called o-Tcoan (Chinese, ''ng kwdn), 

 ^' o gateways.'' 



An entire set of 8 dominoes is reversed and 

 •shuffled and 20 pieces are then arranged face 

 down in ."> rows of 4 i)ieces each (fig. 22). The 

 player then turns these pieces face up and com 

 mencing at the bottom row endeavors to form 

 combinations of 3 pieces each, han-hpai such as 

 have been described under ho-hpal In addi 

 tion to the han-hpai already enumerated, pages 

 523, 524, the following additional ones are permitted in oloan: Three 

 pieces upon which 3 of the spots are alike and the sum of the other 3 



B C 



Fi". 22. 



D 



ARRANGEMKNT OF DOMINOES IN 

 GAME OF O-KOAN: KOREA. 



