. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. CHINESE GAMES WITH DICE AND DOMINOES. 507 The main point of difference in the game as it exists to-day and as described by Dr. Hyde is in the number of dice employed. The enlarged form of the diagram is of minor importance, as he himself says that the names of the officials written on the tablet are many or few, according to the pleasure of the players. The game of .shing lihi fo and the Jai)anese game of many stations, described under the
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. CHINESE GAMES WITH DICE AND DOMINOES. 507 The main point of difference in the game as it exists to-day and as described by Dr. Hyde is in the number of dice employed. The enlarged form of the diagram is of minor importance, as he himself says that the names of the officials written on the tablet are many or few, according to the pleasure of the players. The game of .shing lihi fo and the Jai)anese game of many stations, described under the name of sugorolu, I regard as having been derived from the ancient Tartar game played Avith staves, which exists at the. Fig. 14. PI) TSZ' (CHINESE). (From specimen in tlie .Museum of the Universily uf reunsylvania.) jiresent day in Korea under the name of nyout-nol-M. As to the back- gammon game, which I consider to be a develojmieut of the same game, and which I have described as existing in Korea, China, Japan, Siam, and the Malay Peninsula, I am uncertain whether it is indigenous, has come over from India, or been acquired from the Portuguese or Span- iards in the fifteenth or sixteenth century. PO TSZ'. The po tsz\ or covered die, is not, proi)erly, a die at all. It consists of a small wooden cube (fig. Ha), which is i^laced in a square recep- tacle in the top of a brass prism (fig. IIr), over which a brass cover. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents; United States National Museum. Report of the U. S. National Museum; Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary. Washington : Smithsonian Institution
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