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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.
In the game of Pai Gow, tiles are always played in pairs, hence the ranking of individual tiles is never come into consideration except to decide the ranking of civilian pairs. 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 ...
In many trumpless games that do not require following suit, sloughing is done face down. This is done in Madiao, Tien Gow, Tam cúc, Six Tigers, Ganjifa, Kaiserspiel, and Brazilian Truco. Some cards lose their trick-taking power if they are not led or played in a specific trick as in Karnöffel, Tien Gow, and Ganjifa.
In a clockwise fashion, the following players must put down an identical number of tiles but only sets of a higher rank will prevail. Players are also able to slough losing tiles face down (this is characteristic of some trumpless trick-taking games like Tien Gow and Ganjifa). The winner of the trick will lead the next one.
Bo Bing (Mandarin Chinese: 博餅; pinyin: Bóbǐng; also known in Hokkien Chinese: 博餅 / 跋餅; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Poa̍h-piáⁿ, or Hokkien Chinese: 跋狀元餅; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Po̍ah-chiōng-gôan-piáⁿ) is a Chinese dice game traditionally played as part of the celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
A trick-taking domino game is a trick-taking game that is played with (Chinese or Western) dominoes. Pages in category "Trick-taking domino games" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.