Prinola

This game is played with a hexagonal top die, with a wooden pin, marked with incised circles from one to six, which are arranged with one opposite two, three opposite six, and four opposite five. This top is spun in a saucer (figure 67). The stakes are laid on a card with six divisions, marked with disks of red paper from one to six. Mr. Webb states that Prinolais a popular game in the market places and is particularly favored by native women. Bets are placed on the spots on the card ; the top is spun rapidly in the saucer, and the winners are paid double the amount of their bets. The chances are largely in favor of the dealer. A game identical with Prinolais played in southern China with a teetotum (ch'é mé), the stakes being laid in the same manner upon a numbered diagram. In India a similar six-sided teetotum (chukree) is used, and the stakes are laid upon a board with six partitions. As before remarked by the present writer1 the name Prinolais evidently the Portuguese pirinola, but the game itself is doubtless of East Indian or Chinese origin.