Published card games
pai gow
pai gow is a card game released in 1120. It is played with 2 to 8 players and in about 10 minutes.
- players
- 2–8
- minutes
- 10
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The box
- Year of release
- 1120
- Also known as
- Gu pai · Gupai · Tianjiu pai · Xuanhe pai
About the game
Pai gow ( py GOW; Chinese: 牌九; pinyin: páijiǔ; Jyutping: paai4 gau2 [pʰaj˩.kɐw˧˥]) is a Chinese gambling game, played with a set of 32 Chinese dominoes. It is played in major casinos in China (including Macau); the United States (including Boston, Massachusetts; Las Vegas, Nevada; Reno, Nevada; Connecticut; Atlantic City, New Jersey; Pennsylvania; Mississippi; and cardrooms in California); Canada (including Edmonton, Alberta and Calgary, Alberta); Australia; and New Zealand. Illegal gambling clubs offering Pai gow can also be found in many Chinatown worldwide.
The name pai gow is sometimes used to refer to a card game called pai gow poker (or "double-hand poker"), which is loosely based on pai gow. The act of playing pai gow is also colloquially known as "eating dog meat".Information from Marquoir’s game database, which cross-checks several open sources. Spotted a mistake? Write to us from the Contact page.