Hoo Hey How Explained
Hoo Hey How (Chinese: t=魚蝦蟹 |l=Fish-Prawn-Crab|p=yú xiā xiè) is a Chinese dice game played with three identical six-sided dice. It is related to Bầu cua cá cọp in Vietnam, Klah Klok in Cambodia,[2] and similar to Crown and Anchor in the West Indies and the American game chuck-a-luck.[3] [4] [5]
Die face variants! Face !! Hoo Hey How (Yu Xia Xie) !! Alternate !! Bầu cua cá cọp !! Klah Klok| 1 | Fish | Fish | Fish |
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| 2 | Calabash | Stag |
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| 3 | Prawn | Cock | Tiger | Prawn |
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| 4 | Crab | Prawn | Crab |
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| 5 | Coin | Prawn | Calabash |
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| 6 | Cock | Crab | Cock | |
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Notes and References
- Book: Dobree, C. T. . 1955 . Gambling Games of Malaya . 109 . The Caxton Press . Kuala Lumpur.
- Web site: Clere . Brittney . Traditional Games in Cambodia . . January 4, 2023.
- The Gamer 1981 p 17 "In Britain, the game is Crown and Anchor and is played with dice spotted (Spades, Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs, Crown and Anchor). In part of the Far East, the game is Hoo Hey How and the dice are spotted (Fish, Prawn, King Crab, Butterfly,"
- Book: Parlett, David Sidney . The Oxford history of board games . 1999 . 31 . A substantially similar game is played by the Chinese under the title Hoo-Hey-How, or, more picturesquely, Fish-Prawn-Crab, the six compartments and dice-sides being marked respectively with a fish, a prawn, a king crab, a flower, a butterfly, and a woman. . registration . 0-19-212998-8 . Oxford University Press.
- Book: Botermans, Jack . The Book of Games: strategy, tactics & history . registration . 2008 . Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. . New York, New York . 978-1-4027-4221-7 . Sun and Anchor . 435–448 . https://archive.org/details/bookofgamesstrat0000bote_r1h7/page/434/mode/2up.
