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How to Play Dice

1, bragging rights to play: This game requires more than 2 people to carry out, each person shakes once each, and then the players themselves to see their own points, guess the other party's points, each player to take turns to call the point, call the point of the method is a few dice a few points. One of the dice and points must be greater than the previous player's point.

2, big than small: this is the most simple, need a dice cup 2 or 3 dice. Dice in the dice cup into the dice, by a person to shake the dice cup, shake the dice after the players to bet on the size of the dice points and the sum of the dice, the maximum value of more than half of the big. The player who bets correctly after the opening of the dice cup wins the game.

3, Stud play: each player needs five dice, after shaking the dice will get not the same points of the card type, five dice singular are the same, the card type is also the largest, five points are different card type is the smallest, and the rest is divided into three greater than the two pairs of greater than a pair of the best need to be more than five people to carry out.

History

According to legend, the inventor of dice is the literary scholar Cao Zhi in the Three Kingdoms period, initially used as a tool for divination, and later evolved into a game for the concubines of the harem, rolling dice points betting on wine or betting on silk pouches and other things.

Then the dice points painted on the black, in the Tang Dynasty before the addition of tracing red. However, the excavation of dice from Qi tombs of the Warring States period in Qingzhou, Shandong Province, has proved that dice were not invented by Cao Zhi. Dice, as one of the six bo in the Chinese bo game, is regarded as the ancestor of Chinese bo tools, and has been more popular in the late Spring and Autumn and Warring States period.

But the real Chinese native domestic dice 14-sided and 18-sided, the dice unearthed in the mausoleum of Qin Huang for China's authentic native dice, engraved with Chinese characters, since the Qin and Han Dynasty, multi-faceted dice along with cultural exchanges, to the point that later came into China, followed by the combination of Chinese and Western, only now we have a common dice.