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| | Chinese Games With Dominoes |
 | | The dominoes in common use in the Province of Kwangtung and among the Chinese in the United States are made of Chinese ebony and are about 2 and five-eights inches long, seven-eighths of an inch in width, and three-eighths of an inch in thickness, with incised spots, which are painted red and white. |
 | | The ends of each piece are usually ornamented with a single incised red spot, while the backs are sometimes uniformly marked with three spots, one red between two white, arranged diagonally across (Figure 18 [and the photograph at the top left of this Webpage]). |
 | | Both pieces in all the pairs are of equal value and rank in their suits in the order given, except those which compose the pair called chí tsün, which together form the highest pair, but separately are the lowest of the mò series. |
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