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Tien Gow or Tin Kau (Chinese: 天九; pinyin: tiān jiǔ; Jyutping: tin1 gau2; lit. 'Heaven and Nine') is the name of Chinese gambling games played with either a pair of dice or a set of 32 Chinese dominoes. In these games, Heaven is the top rank of the civil suit, while Nine is the top rank of the military suit.
A full set of Chinese dominoes. Chinese dominoes are used in several tile-based games, namely, tien gow, pai gow, tiu u and kap tai shap.In Cantonese they are called gwāt pái (骨牌), which literally means "bone tiles"; it is also the name of a northern Chinese game, where the rules are quite different from the southern Chinese version of tien gow.
Khanhoo or kanhu is a non-partnership Chinese card game of the draw-and-discard structure. It was first recorded during the late Ming dynasty as a multi-trick taking game, [1] a type of game that may be as old as Tien gow (Tianjiu "Heaven and Nines"), [2] revised in its rules and published in an authorized edition by Emperor Gaozong of Song in 1130 AD for the information of his subjects.
Since 2-4 and 1-2 are military tiles, their ranking are based on number of points, as in 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 3 in the game of Tien Gow. Again, the ranking of these two individual tiles are irrelevant in the game of Pai Gow because they will never be played individually and when they are played together they become Gee June.
In the Philippines, the game is known as "Pua Tiong Chiu" (Hokkien Chinese: 跋中秋; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Poa̍h-tiong-chhiu) among the Chinese Filipino community, [2] where the prizes are often usually money and/or appliances for adults and sometimes toys and food for children or sometimes mooncakes known in Hokkien Chinese: 中秋餅; Pe̍h-ōe ...
A set of madiao consists of 40 cards of four suits: . Cash or coins (纹, wen): 11 cards, from 9 to 1, half cash, and zero cash.This suit is in reverse order with zero cash as the highest while 9 cash is the lowest.
Bunco (also spelled bunko or bonko or buncko) is a dice game with twelve or more players, divided into groups of four, trying to score points while taking turns rolling three dice in a series of six rounds. A bunco is achieved when a person rolls three-of-a-kind and all three numbers match the round number which is decided at the beginning of ...
Digging Flowers (Chinese: 挖花; pinyin: Wā huā; lit. 'dig flowers'), also known as Dachen Mahjong (大陳麻将; Dà chén májiàng) is a tile-based game similar to mahjong and rummy in which four players compete to form their own winning hand of 21 tiles using melds of two- and three-tile sets. Like mahjong, players build their hands by ...