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Encyclopedia > Tien Gow

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  • an article dated back to 1893 (http://www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/~museum/Archive/Culin/Dice1893/tatinkau.html)
  • A contemporary description (http://www.gamecabinet.com/rules/DominoTienGow.html)

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Tien Gow (136 words)
Tien Gow is the name of a Chinese trick-taking gambling game for 4 players.
"Tien Gow" is sometimes spelled Tin Kau, and is the transliteration of two Chinese characters (天九) in Cantonese: Heaven and Nine.
A search for "Tien Gow" or "Tin Kau" on google.com reveals most references for Tien Gow on the web.
Chinese dominoes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (504 words)
Chinese dominoes are used in several tile-based games, namely, Tien Gow, Pai Gow, Gwat Pai, Che Deng, Tiu U, Kap Tai Shap.
It is the highest ranking pair in the game of Pai Gow, though the tiles rank low individually (in their normal order).
When a tile of this pair is played individually in the game of Tien Gow, each takes its regular ranking among other military suit tiles according to the total points.
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