Liubo
Sign in to saveLiubo (; Old Chinese *kruk pˤak “six sticks”) was an ancient Chinese board game for two players. The rules have largely been lost, but it is believed that each player had six game pieces that were moved around the points of a square game board that had a distinctive, symmetrical pattern. Moves were determined by the throw of six sticks, which performed the same function as dice in other race games.
Key facts
- Chinese.image
- Met, Earthenware figures playing liubo, Han Dynasty.JPG
- Chinese.caption
- A pair of Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE) ceramic tomb figurines of two gentlemen playing liubo
- Chinese.l
- six sticks
- Chinese.p
- liùbó
- Chinese.w
- liu4-po2
- Chinese.y
- luhkbok
- Chinese.j
- luk6bok3
- Chinese.oc bs
- kruk pˤak
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Green-glazed pottery figurine representing liubo.jpg
Show 3 more facts
- minimum number of players
- 2
- maximum number of players
- 2
- Commons category
- Liubo
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~21 min read
Article
14 sectionsContents
- History
- Equipment
- Rules
- Chupu
- Relationship to other games
- Liubo patterns on other objects
- Mirrors
- Coins
- Sundials
- Divination boards
- Players
- See also
- References
- External links
Liubo (; Old Chinese *kruk pˤak “six sticks”) was an ancient Chinese board game for two players. The rules have largely been lost, but it is believed that each player had six game pieces that were moved around the points of a square game board that had a distinctive, symmetrical pattern. Moves were determined by the throw of six sticks, which performed the same function as dice in other race games.
The game was invented no later than the middle of the 1st millennium BCE, and was popular during the Han dynasty (202 BCE – 220 CE). However, after the Han dynasty it rapidly declined in popularity, possibly due to the rise in popularity of the game of weiqi (go), and it became totally forgotten.