Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Looking for a New Game? Try Gambling on Mooncakes

Mooncake gambling odds-on festival favourite

If you ever have the urge to find a new gambling game to take your mind off the current crop of political conferences, you should look no further than the home of obscure gambling games - China

This month, the Chinese play a game of "Bo Bing" - a game of 6 dice in which the winner wins - and comes free with a packet of mooncakes.

Dating back 300 years, the game seems relatively simple - you need 6 dice and a bowl. Throw the dice into the bowl and the different 'pips' you get stand for different prizes you can win. However, these awards have 6 ranks and there are 63 difference sized mooncakes as prizes - from the lowest rank, Xiucai - to the highest rank, Zhuangyaun

As with other Chinese gambling games, the number 'four' is important - basically, if you get 4 or more dice with 4 pips, you win 'zhuangyuan'

So put aside poker this month - and pick up some mooncakes and dice for a slightly more asian slant to your gambling

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