Chinese games

board game for two players that originated in China more than 2,500 years ago

hand game for two players

Mahjong is a tile-based game that was developed in the 19th century in China and has spread throughout the world since the early 20th century. It is played by four players (with three-player variations found in parts of China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and Southeast Asia). The game and its regional variants are played throughout the Sinosphere in East and Southeast Asia and have also become popular in Western countries. The game has been adapted into a widespread form of online entertainment. Similar to the Western card game rummy, mahjong is a game of skill, strategy, and luck. To distingu

thumb|300px|Like most modern sets, this wooden tangram is stored in the square configuration.

thumb|right|300px|Large and miniature Western rubber diabolos. Wooden sticks are shown in the background

four main academic and artistic accomplishments required of the aristocratic ancient Chinese scholar-gentleman caste

Casino game

Traditional Japanese hand ball

traditional Chinese board game

thumb|250px|Modern Japanese taketombo bamboo-copters; wooden type with winding thread (left); plastic type (right) thumb|250px|A decorated Japanese taketombo propeller The bamboo-copter, also known as the bamboo dragonfly or Chinese top (Chinese zhuqingting (竹蜻蜓), Japanese taketonbo ), is a toy helicopter rotor that flies upward when its shaft is rapidly spun. This helicopter-like top originated in Jin dynasty China around 320 AD, and was the object of early experiments by English engineer George Cayley, the inventor of modern aeronautics.

Chinese military chess (luzhanqi) () (lit. “Land Battle Chess”) is a two-player Chinese board game . There is also a version for four players. It bears many similarities to dou shou qi, Game of the Generals and the Western board game Stratego. It is a non-perfect abstract strategy game of partial information, since each player has only limited knowledge concerning the disposition of the opposing pieces. Because of the Chinese nature of the game, terms used within the game may vary in translation.

popular Chinese domino game, using tiles traditionally made of ox bone or ebony, in Northern Song dynasty, China (1120)

Pitch-pot () is a traditional Chinese game that requires players to throw arrows or sticks from a set distance into a large, sometimes ornate, canister.

Chinese card game based on the Three Kingdoms period of China and the semi-fictional novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms (ROTK)

public domain arithmetical card game

20th-century board game

Chinese dice game