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Dice Game Yam

Many Bhutanese men love playing dice games. In the yam dice game, cowrie shell are laid out as pellets to be covered. The players then take two dice which are rolled in the cup and cast on a hard spongy surface. The players move their nine tokens according to the total numbers of the dice they have cast. They may eliminate the lesser tokens of opponents and stack on their own token to create a strong set. Whoever manages to take all their token beyond all the cowrie pellet wins the game.

Subject ID: S7767