Choboichi
Template:One source Template:Nihongo is a simple gambling game played in Japan using one covered die. The dealer shakes a six-sided die in a cup or rice bowl and then places it upside down, concealing the rolled value; after the players wager for their prediction of what the value will be, the dealer reveals the die by lifting the cup.
Gameplay
| Choboichi game board | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | 5 | 6 |
The dealer is known as the Template:Nihongo, while the bettors are the Template:Nihongo; the dealer is the one who holds the cup, known as the Template:Nihongo or Template:Nihongo. The role of the dealer may either be fixed to one person or rotate amongst the players.[1]
Players wager by placing money on one of six spaces on the game board. Winning wagers are paid out typically at four-to-one (e.g., a player who places a $10 bet on a winning space would be paid $40) while the dealer keeps the losing bets.[2] The winning payout may vary between 2:1 and 5:1.
Consider a player who places a total bet of Template:JPY, with Template:JPY wagered on each space: one space will win, and the player will receive Template:Mvar×Template:JPY for that bet, but the other five spaces will lose, costing the player Template:JPY. The difference between the amount the player loses and the amount won is the house edge; with a multiplier of 4, that difference is Template:JPY, which is Template:Frac (16.7%) of the initial Template:JPY bet. Formally, the house edge is computed using the relative probabilities of winning and losing along with the winning multiplier, Template:Mvar:
The house edge varies from 50% (for a multiplier of 2) to 0% (for a multiplier of 5), with the most common multiplier of 4 resulting in a house edge of 16.7%.
There are multiple variations using up to five dice,[2] although multiple-dice games generally have different rules, including Chō-han (2 dice) and Cee-lo (3 dice).[1]
History
The game was noted to be so popular by the 18th century that an entire strip of gambling sheds one Template:Transl long, Template:Cvt, was dedicated to it.[3]
In culture
At least two Template:Transl stories use choboichi as a central element: Template:Ill and Template:Nihongo.[4]
References
External links
- Template:Youtube by Hiroyuki Otomo