First off, I am Lao, not Vietnamese.
I see this game played all the time at Lao and Vietnamese PArties.
So I bought it myself before I came overseas to Okinawa. I know the simple rules where if your money is on the animal that is on the dice then u get 1:1 and if there is 2 animals on the dice than you get paid 2:1 and so on with 3. Now what I don't get is where the dealer moves the money around before he reveals the dice and what it means when you link your money like for 2 animals.
Can anyone explain to me some of these rules or the whole game? I know it's a simple game but I can't find anyone in my barracks that is vietnamese that knows this and it's fun at parties. (Cant find on the internet).
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Well, you place your bet on the board and the dealer (banker) rolls the dice. No matter if you place bet on one animal or more, as long as the picuture of that animal show up on the dice then you win. For example, if you place your bet $1 on both the fish and the crab, and after the dices are rolled, only one dice out of the three has the fish on it, then you would win $1 for your bet on the fish but lose the $1 that you bet on the crab. So that mean you didn't lose or win anything.
You can place equal amount of bet on all the animal and you would nevere win or lose.
if what i said didn't make sense then read this
You can place equal amount of bet on all the animal and you would nevere win or lose.
if what i said didn't make sense then read this
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To play, one player takes the role of banker and the others are punters. Players stake money on the betting board and the dice are cast (either under cover or into a porcelain bowl). Punters are paid an equivalent amount that they staked, the number of times their picture appears on the dice (e.g. if someone bet on the fish and it appears twice, the punter gets back his stake and an additional sum twice the stake).
QUOTE(chanoi @ Jan 28 2008, 01:34 AM) [snapback]3453893[/snapback]
Well, you place your bet on the board and the dealer (banker) rolls the dice. No matter if you place bet on one animal or more, as long as the picuture of that animal show up on the dice then you win. For example, if you place your bet $1 on both the fish and the crab, and after the dices are rolled, only one dice out of the three has the fish on it, then you would win $1 for your bet on the fish but lose the $1 that you bet on the crab. So that mean you didn't lose or win anything.
You can place equal amount of bet on all the animal and you would nevere win or lose.
if what i said didn't make sense then read this
You can place equal amount of bet on all the animal and you would nevere win or lose.
if what i said didn't make sense then read this
yea that made sense. That's the easy rules. but you know at parties you see people like link animals like say they put a $1 bill in the middle of the crab and shrimp. what's the rule on that and how does that work? and you know how the banker/dealer moves the money around before he reveals the dice, how does that work and what are the payoff if he does that?
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