Call aloft your family, aunts, uncles, cousins, 2nd cousins, cousins nth removed, etc. etc. This year, the Moon Festival will be a little added fun.
Try this dice game with the family. This game of adventitious is frequently played in Xiamen, and some Chinese communities throughout Asia, during the Moon Festival.
Prizes are at pale to add to the ancestors camaraderie.
Read beneath to see the instructions.
Game
Special acknowledgment to Sean of "To the Tale, and added Such Concerns Blog", for the abundant description of the game.
Materials
You will need:
6 pieces dice, finer numbers 1 and 4 in red, added numbers in black
Wide-mouthed bowl
Prizes, prizes, prizes. You still accept time to solicit...
Assortment of agilely smiling, or rambunctious, or dancing ancestors associates and accompany on Moon Festival night. Grandma, Grandpa, and little cousins included
Object of the Game:
To get as abundant prizes by throwing the dice and accepting assigned cardinal combinations.
Procedure:
Preparations afore Moon Festival:
1. Look for a advanced mouthed bowl.
2. Prepare 6 dice with cardinal 1 and 4 in red. If you can alone acquisition dice with alone the cardinal 1 in red, ad-lib for cardinal 4.
3. Solicit for prizes amid family.
4. Prepare the afterward prizes
o 32 pcs 6th abode prizes
o 16 pcs 5th abode prizes
o 8 pcs 4th places prizes
o 4 pcs 3rd abode prizes
o 2 pcs 2nd abode prizes
o 1 pc 1st abode prize
Value of prizes may vary. May be simple or extravagant. Others raffle off moon cake, candies, gadgets, ChildBook allowance certificates (ehem:-) ... Be creative.
Game Proper on Moon Festival night:
5. Place wide-mouthed basin on a table. Gather everybody about the table. Appoint the aboriginal player.
6. First amateur throws all 6 dice into the bowl. booty agenda of the numbers face-up on the dice.
7. Certain aggregate of numbers on the dice entitles the amateur to a prize. See combinations and agnate prizes below.
8. Pass the basin to the abutting person. S/he will additionally bandy the dice and get a award-winning if assertive cardinal combinations acreage face up on the dice. Etc. etc. until all the prizes run out.
Special rules:
- If any of the dice abatement alfresco the bowl, you lose your about-face for that round.
- If all the prizes for a accustomed agreement accept run out, again approaching appearances of that agreement win no added prizes.
- "Ultimate throw" - The best aggregate is composed of either 6 fours, or 6 ones. If you get this combination, you will ALL prizes, alike those already won. Some families aloof accord the 1st award-winning to ensure everybody gets to booty home a prize.
- Other rules you can accomplish up as you go forth as continued as it is fair and everybody gets to accept fun.
Dice combinations and agnate prizes:
The game is absolutely primarily based on occurrences of the "4" amount -- the added fours you roll, the bigger the prize.
Sixth-place prizes - Awarded to bodies who cycle 1 four
Fifth-place prizes - Awarded to bodies who cycle 2 fours:
Fourth-place prizes - Awarded to bodies who cycle 3 fours:
Third-place prizes - Awarded to bodies who cycle 4 of any cardinal except four:
Second-place prizes - Awarded to bodies who cycle either a abounding arrangement of all six numbers, or 3 of one cardinal and 3 of another:
And finally, the first-place award-winning (zhungyuan) is accustomed to the advantageous body who manages to cycle four fours, bristles of any distinct number, or better:
Have fun and acceptable affluence on Moon Festival!
Source: "Of Dice and Moon Cakes" by Sean - http://lengthofwords.blogspot.com/2006/10/of-dice-and-mooncakes.html
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