Games sorted by year of publication. Entries in white are not strictly set in China, but are somehow related.

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2012
Zong Shi	Kevin G. Nunn; Gryphon Games-2012; 3-5; 75 Worker placement for artisans trying to be recognized as the grand master. Includes eight types of projects. B
2011
Taiwan Snackbar	Huraki Ka; Swan Panasia Co., Ltd.-2011; 3-10; 15; 8+ The competition here is in eating, but without overdoing it such that you fall from your seat. It's a risk-management card game. B
2010
China Einflusskarten	Michael Schacht; Abacus; 3-5 Extension of the Schacht/Abacus China game that adds 9 influence cards. These increase the number of points awarded for placing houses in the area corresponding to a card. B L
Dim Sum Derby	Joan Wendland; Blood and Cardstock Games; 3-4 Card game in which each player has a different combination of dim sum they wish to get off the dim sum cart and eat. B L
1880: China	Helmut Ohley and Leonhard Orgler; Double-O Games; 3-7 Another in the family of 18xx stocks and railroads games. B L
Jin Li	W. David MacKenzie; nestorgames; 2; 6+ Pure abstract in which players control fish (the title is Chinese for koi) in a pond, trying to get close to other fish. B L
Middle Kingdom Race	(unknown); Pioneer Junior College (Singapore); 2-4; 6+ Plan a route across China so as to score the most points. This is like Europatour, but with more of a scoring system. B L
Way of the Dragon	Néstor Romeral Andrés; nestorgames; 2-5; 7+ Racing game employing the five elements and five mythological animals. Players roll and re-roll dice Yahtzee-style to try for the best move. Advanced rules permit use of special powers. B L

2009
Chinese Characters Puzzle	unknown; unknown; 2 Educational game teaching Chinese characters. Players create complete characters from cards showing only radicals (sub-components). B
Ghost Stories: B-Rice Lee	Antoine Bauza; Repos Production; 1-4 Expansion card for Ghost Stories. For those in the know, this card has the ability WAAATAAAA as well as a Nunchuks icon. B L
Laura und das chinesische Feuerwerk	Kai Haferkamp; Amigo; 1-4 "Laura and the Chinese Fireworks" is sort of a Memory game with an unusual mechanism. Twenty tiles are placed under a transparent screen which has some kind of black liquid trapped inside it preventing what's beneath it from being seen until it is pressed down so that the liquid moves away. Everyone sees the twenty tiles and tries to memorize them. Then in turn players get task cards requiring them to remember the locations of three particular tiles. If they can they get to keep the task card. B L
Lauras große China-Reise	Inka & Markus Brand; Amigo; 2-6 In "Laura's Great Trip to China", players distribute their tokens around the map. Then pieces are flipped over at the various locations. If they match the location of a token, the piece can be taken, as can the star token. Other pieces are part of a star token puzzle. When all the pieces of this puzzle are complete, the player holding the star wins. B L
Macao	Stefan Feld; alea; 2-4 The (longtime Portuguese-owned) Chinese port in the 17th century is the setting for this game employing six dice. Players take on the roles of captain, craftsman, scholar or governor in this game of trading. This is the thirteenth in Alea's big box series. L
Màoyìzhilù	Lajos Brons; Papercut; 3-4 In "Trade Roads" players are merchants in a Silk Road period setting up trade routes and acquiring stock on companies. Sounds almost like an 18XX system B
The Message	unknown; unknown; 3-9 Card game based on the Chinese movie of the same name which depicts events around the 1942 Nanking assassinations. Each player is secretly either in the army, the underground or a passerby as well as owning a unique character ability. A turn consists of drawing two cards and giving one to another player. Players try to collect information of the type their organization is seeking, but avoid false information, which knocks them out of the game. B L
Mountain of Inferno	Ta-Te Wu; STGS-2009/Z-Man Games-2010; 2-4 Based on the "Flaming Mountain" chapter of the epic novel Journey to the West, depicts the episode in which the monk is trapped in the mountain with the evil, hungry buffalo demon family. As usual, his followers must rescue him. Card placement game includes 9 each of monkey king, piggy, monk and horse cards. B L
Pekin Express	unknown; Gyro Toys & Games; 2-6; 8+ Roll-and-move trivia game in which players travel the route from Moscow to Beijing or Beijing to Bombay. B L
Pinky Li: The Bad Mushroom	Marco Bing; PYXI; 2-4; 4-7 "The Great Mushroom Race" is a game in a book aimed at getting children to read. B L
Taste Taiwan	Wei-Cheng Cheng; Formosa Force Games; 2-3 Postcard Trivia game on the cultural history of Taiwan. Thus far the extant series are Warrior and Princess. B L
Tien Zi Que	Ta-Te Wu; TZQ/Z-Man Games; 2; 8+ Pocket Mah Jongg for two. B L
Turandot	Stefano Castelli; daVinci/Abacus; 2-5 A fifteen minute card game in which players are casting directors for this Chinese-set opera. Players recruit six singers and a director using a simultaneous selection system. B L
Vor den Toren von Loyang	Uwe Rosenberg; Hall Games; 2-4 "Before the gates of Loyang" is the previously unreleased precursor to Agricola. Players are farmers who acquire seeds, plant and then harvest them, attempting to fulfil orders. A market card shows the varying prices. Person cards give you the right to perform some special action. Order and contract cards show what is in demand. Field cards provide extra capacity. L
Wu Xing Rummy	Michael Haverty; (web-published); 2-4; 8+ The four seasons and five elements of Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water adorn the 108 cards in this Rummy-style game in which there are also special action cards à la the Mystery Rummy series. May become available via artscow.com soon. B
2008
Carving Up China	Lloyd Krassner; Warp Spawn Games; 3-5 Players are late 19th century Imperialist powers (Britain, France, Japan, Russia and Germany) bent on getting the largest shares of a powerless China. Each player side offers a special ability. B L
Confucius	Alan Paull; Surprised Stare Games; 3-5 Players are Ming Dynasty aristocrats in this area-control and action points system. Included are three branches of government, sea explorations and trade fleets. B L
Formosa Rail - 1899 from North to South	Ta-Te Wu, Sherise Liu and Jong Kong; Academia Historica; 2-5 Railroad game showing the construction of the network on the isle of Taiwan. Includes rules for collecting materials as well as tunnels, bridges and stations. Said to last up to two hours. B L
Ghost Stories	Antoine Bauza; for Asmodee Editions; 1-4 This is a completely cooperative game in which the players compete against the game system, winning or losing together. The background is that the ghost of a dead ruler has returned to earth and is eager to regain his throne. The Taoist priests must prevent him and his host of evil spirits. B L
Ghost Stories: The Guardhouse Expansion	Antoine Bauza; Spielbox; 1-4 This is a small expansion printed in the pages of Spielbox magazine. It provides an alternate village tile (the Guardhouse) and five ghost cards (four ghosts and their ruler). B L
Great Wall	Lloyd Krassner; Warp Spawn Games; 2-4 Players represent master builders working on the Great Wall of China. The wall is represented by placing cards ends to end with the object of having the most honor points by the end B L
Huang Di	Bryan Johnson; JKLM Games; 2-6 Players represent master builders working on the Great Wall of China for the Huang Di, the first emperor of China. Each player has an identical set of cards to perform functions such as hiring workers, getting treasury grants and building. The goal is to have the majority of blocks at each level and/or to perform favors for the emperor. B L
It's All Chinese to Me!	Martin Ethier; self-published; 3-5 In Chinatown players try to order meals from a menu written only in Chinese despite not knowing how to read it. The waiter brings what the majority wants; if that's your pick, success! The player with the most successes wins. The game consists of 110 cards. L
KaiZa	Kemal Zhang; Yun Games; 2-4 Players try to connect areas to their areas by placing paths. This also permits collecting black and white Yin and Yang pieces, each pair of which permits buying a card. Cards either confer special actions or are tasks requiring connection of two villages to earn points. Duration is about thirty minutes. B L
Middle Kingdom	Tom Lehmann; Z-Man Games; 2-5 Card game that sees players compete in blind auctions for warriors, nobles, scholars and peasants, trying to balance their collections. Certain cards confer special powers. B L
Power Grid: Korea/China	Friedemann Friese; 2F-Spiele/Rio Grande; 2-6 This is another in the Power Grid series. The version for mainland China offers special rules relating to the nation's planned economy. B L
2007
Chang Cheng	Walter Obert; Tenkigames; 2-4 About the building of the first version of China's great wall (historically, more a joining of existing walls than an entirely new construction). Review B L
Dragon Parade	Reiner Knizia; Piatnik/Z-Man Games; 2-5 Play cards to move a dragon pawn back and forth along the street in front of the Forbidden Palace. Each player gets a random hand of six movement cards and will play only four of them before the dragon's final position is settled. Players deploy their street seller along the street, one at a time after each of the first three cards played, trying to be nearest the dragon once it stops moving. B L
China Rails	Michael Dreiling; Mayfair; 2-6; Another in the Empire Builder series of railroad games in which one uses a crayon to draw tracks on a map of China and delivers loads to fulfil contract cards drawn from a deck. Review B L
Im Jahr des Drachen	Stefan Feld; Alea; Set in the year of the dragon around AD 1000. Each player represents a sovereign trying to protect himself from various catastrophes, including the Mongols. Review B L
Ming-Dynastie	Robert F. Watson; Hans-im-Glück/Rio Grande; 2-4 Region-influence game in which players try to gain the most influence with the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Rio Grande edition known as Ming Dynasty. Review B L

2006
China – Das Duell	Michael Schacht; Spiele aus Timbuktu; 2 Expansion kit for the below China which makes it playable by just two players. Downloadable for printing from Michael Schacht. B L
China – Grenzstreitigkeiten	Michael Schacht; Spiele aus Timbuktu; 3-5 Expansion kit for the below China that adds border and port towns and which is downloadable for printing from Michael Schacht. B L
Fragile	Czarné (Frank Czarnetzki); LudoArt; 1-4 In Shanghai, players attempt to bring crates off the dock and into their warehouses as quickly as possible. This rather abstract game is played on a 10x10 Checkers style board. Player-owned crates are distributed around the board. On a turn action points are used to move dock workers who move and also operate on crates (push, stack, flip). A flipped over crate reads "FRAGILE" and is worth more than others. The game ends when a player has pushed all of his crates into his storehouse space. Also provided are puzzles for a solitaire player. Wooden materials are of quite nice quality. B L
Great Wall of China	Reiner Knizia; Kosmos; 2-5 Card game in which players are building the Great Wall. Each has a hand of seven wall cards, three gate cards and one watchtower card plus nine special cards. Cards are shuffled and five drawn. Some card rows are created. On a turn players can either draw another card or add an identical card to a card row. When a player begins a turn with a majority he may place a prestige tile which weakens him, but when claimed by another player both score. The special cards add one-off advantages/restrictions. B L
YangTzee	Brendan Herlihy; Blue Panther; 2-4 Each tile has two symbols and one blossom. Matching blossoms scores. Forty-five tiles are included. B L
2005
Age of Steam Expansion – China/South America	Pierre Paquet and Martin Sasseville; Steam Brothers; 3-6 Expansion kit for the Age of Steam railroad game series. B L
China	Michael Schacht; Abacus/Überplay; 3-5 Essentially a tile placement game where placement is based on cards in hand. Cards are replenished via a limited drafting mechanism. There are three strategies to pursue: long connected strings, counsellors in connected capitals and dominance of various countries. Originally called Kardinal & König / Web of Power. Review B L
China Erweiterung	Michael Schacht; Abacus; 3-5 Expansion kit for the above China which is downloadable for printing from Michael Schacht. B L
Opiumkrieg 1839-42	Gottfried Bartjes; Mario Truant Verlag; 2-4 In "Opium War" players are traders carrying wares through the South China Sea. The choice is between trading in legitimate products or trying to make a quick fortune selling opium. Historical events also play a role. [This game was previewed at Essen, but to date has never actually been published.] B L
2004
Chinagold	Günter Cornett; Bambus; 2 Two-player limited release featuring an unusual randomization method. Instead of rolling a die, a player tosses three rectangles of wood, each side of which features a different quantity. This is reminiscent of one method of calculating the ancient I Ching. It's also better than a die because it alters the usual probabilities as well as making it much simpler to reduce the range of results for the end game. Play itself transpires on a hexagonal grid board where every point is loaded with a face down gold piece. On a turn a player either reveals an uninterrupted straight line of pieces or turns one face down. Each space is simultaneously part of a blue line (the river) and also a brown land (the hills). When either type of group is cleared, the player controlling that terrain type cashes in. At first it seems the main skill is simply one of discernment – discovering the best place to flip tokens to help oneself. But continued play reveals also an intuitive counterpart to this practical activity, one of imagining the opponent's next move and planning to take advantage of it. A somewhat contradictory philosophy recognizes that each move requires a different-sized roll and each move can be designed to allow a player something good to do with as many rolls as possible. In short, despite the importance of the randomness, there are multiple strategic approaches and many options each turn. Physically, the board is a leatherette roll-up map, the pieces 81 wooden discs with stickers applied. The sturdy box is the green, standard one used in several Bambus games. Unfortunately this title appeared in a small print run and mysteriously has not yet been picked up for any larger publisher's two-player series. It's their loss as this is one of those rare games with few rules which can be appreciated by initiate and sophisticate alike. Review B L
Formula Dé: Circuits 34 & 34 – Bahrain & Shanghai	Laurent Lavaur and Eric Randall; Eurogames/Descartes; This expansion kit for basic version of this auto racing game depicts a track in Shanghai, China. B L
Somewhere in China	Jim Deacove; Family Pastimes 2-5 Players operate fishing boats attempting to satisfy particular consumer demands, but the good fishing grounds are hard to find and sometimes dangerously far out. Choose your gear, bait and amount of fuel carefully and watch out for hull leaks, sharks and storms. B L
2003
China Moon	Bruno Faidutti; Eurogames; 2-5 A tactical racing game based on a fairy tale about a mandarin duck and several frogs set in China. Originally published as Flower of the Lotus and also known as Lotusblume. Review B L
I Ching du Tchouan	Pascal Rolly and Jean-Marc Tribet; Territoires d'Outre Mondes; 2 Players try to cross the board in their direction by creating a path with their pawns. B L
2002
Dschunke	Michael Schacht; Queen; 3-5 "Junks" is essentially an auction game with a few extra wrinkles. Best and most innovative of them is the mechanism of layering three part strips representing crates. These are placed in groups of three with each succeeding layer being laid crosswise. Each player's influence on the containing junk depends on the number of crates he has showing. So interesting is this unique mechanism that one comes to regret that it does not play a larger role. Instead, playing the starring role is the dreaded "blind auction with possibility of no return". In other words, bids are sealed, simultaneously revealed and all must pay, even if coming in second place and receiving nothing. What will it take to make this mechanism disappear from games forever? It really does nothing but defeat skillful play. Can it be consigned to games for children, please? Another unwelcome element is that of memory as players must dive into one of five decks of special cards à la The Settlers of Catan Card Game. The game slowdown that occurs while this happens is not as bad here, but there is enough card text that it may cause problems for non-German readers. The other main activity is choosing to execute special functions with the three different merchants on the five different junks, an interesting process which requires considerable lookahead and defense against the activities of others, especially the player to the left. Thematically, the economic model is a very strange one, suggesting that products such as spice, rice and fish are more fungible than money as the market presents a fixed price and the player who bids the most product is the only one who gets paid. Actually, money is never spent, only being employed as a scoring mechanism. A good idea makes holdings public at two strategic points of the game. The design does not feel "tight" – in fact, the phases in a round could probably be re-sequenced in any order without substantially affecting play – whether this is a failing or sheer brilliance I can't quite make out. The overall result is something of a mishmash of good and not so good features. The designer has succeeded better with previous outings Web of Power and Kontor than in this, his first large game published by Queen. It will probably be less to the taste of sophisticated players, but may be appreciated by those less demanding, if the language issues can be surmounted. Review B L
Gang of Four	Days of Wonder; 3-4 Card game that seems to be quite closely related to the Chinese game Zheng Fen. Review B L
Great Walls	Microcosm Games; 2-4 Players compete to build the largest wall in Ancient China. Choosing from a hand of possible structures, players take turns adding sections to their walls, forming barriers to surround territory and gain military might. B L
Shendao	Valéry Fourcade; La Mèche Rebelle Editions; 2 Tile-laying abstract with the theme of Shendao, the way of the spirit, based on a Chinese god and goddess. B L
Snap	Gamewright; 1-4; 5+ Tile-laying game is not without interest for adults. Depicted on the tiles are Chinese-style dragons, long and curly, in varying colors. Players must match up like colors and snap dragons together like puzzle pieces. The goal is to complete as long a dragon as possible to maximize points. Of course it won't hurt to prevent opponents from doing same. Each player has a hand size of three so there is a decent amount of planning. Further interest is added by the fact that while dragon heads are common, tails are relatively rare, concentrating interest on how these tiles are positioned. On top of this, there are three tiger tiles which confer even more points. (In Chinese lore the dragon and the tiger are the mythic creatures of east and west respectively.) One particular play of interest revolves around the tiles which have the same color emerging twice, which come in pairs. When combined they emerge a good number of points, so a player who holds one might like to watch carefully for the other to appear. Opponents who notice it appearing might like to void this possibility by defensively playing some other tile on it first. Tiles are nicely illustrated and made from fairly nice cardboard. While one might like the interesting longer dragons to arise more often, can make for a colorful and absorbing twenty minutes. Review B L
2001
Siedler von Catan, Die: Historische Szenarien	Klaus Teuber; Kosmos; 3-6 One of scenarios in this game is named "Die Große Mauer" which translated is "The Great Wall". "The Great Wall" casts each player as a guardian of a segment of the wall, trying to prevent the raids of steppe nomads. Because nomads inevitably seem to cross the wall somewhere, placing the other settlements far away from it seems a good idea. Interesting dilemma about whether to deliberately let them in just so that they deprive opponents of production. There is a lot of ore available on the fixed map, making the development card strategy look attractive, but this can be a trap because the value of the largest army award has been cut down to just one victory point and three victory point cards have been removed. One problem is that without the robber -- the pirate only affects players with ports – it becomes a little too difficult to haul back a leader. [Rules] (this site) Review B L
2000
Formula Dé: Grand Prix China / Malaysia	Eurogames/Descartes; This expansion kit for basic version of this auto racing game depicts a track in Zhuhai, China. B L
Kathai	Michael Andersch; Adlung Spiele; 3-5 Multi-player card game is about trading commodities in old Cathay, collecting and trading cards and deciding the best time to turn them in for points. Offers at least two possible strategies, one of achieving a large, valuable collection, the other of turning in several smaller collections, but rather quickly. Of course which one to use greatly depends on what the other players are doing. Definitely worthwhile for just about all players. Review B L
Qin	Reiner Knizia; Queen; planned for 2000, but never released; 2-4 About building walls in ancient times. Graphic design by Franz Vohwinkel. B L
1999
Chinatown	Karsten Hartwig; Alea/ Rio Grande Games-1999 Negotiation game about acquiring property and building up businesses in New York's old Chinatown owes something to Metropolis. Gorgeously illustrated and easy to play. Players must be very careful to watch players lucky enough to build a profitable enterprise on the first two turns however as they usually manage to win. It is nice if everyone agrees to embargo such players, but usually someone gives in because failing to trade with them hurts their own fortunes too seriously. It has been observed on rec.games.board that the Chinese writing on the business tiles uses simplified characters devised in mainland China only in the 1950s and that the historic center of New York's Chinatown is the corner of Mott and Pell streets, neither of which are shown. Review B L
Drei Chinesen mit dem Kontrabass	Ravensburger;-1999 (Three Chinese on the Double Bass), a word game based on a children's song in which all the vowels are being replaced with different sounds. B L
Hong Kong	Piatnik & Söhne-1999 Two-player abstract game of perfect information by Reiner Knizia is about the building of skyscrapers in Hong Kong, thinly. Actually it's more a matter of who can build up faster and higher and thus cap his opponent's buildings. Or try the strategy of trying to cover territory. This strategic dilemma makes things interesting while the double move pieces afford difficult tactical decisions. Thus should appeal even to those who are not normally fans of abstracts. Review B L
Lao Pengh	Patrick Inauen; Adlung Spiele-1999 Card game of placing Cranes and Dragons in 3 piles. Graphics by Jürgen Martens. B L
Ming	Jürgen Reiche; Siebenstein Spiele-1999; 2 Chess-like abstract featuring emperor, mandarin, generals and monks on a 7x7 board. B L
Ta Yü	Niek Neuwahl; Kosmos/Rio Grande-1999; 2-4 Abstract tile-layer and connectivity game of river construction. Ta Yü is the legendary Chinese hero who saved the Realm of the Middle Kingdom from a flood by creating a multitude of rivers to divert the torrent to a distant sea. A pricey package, but the very high quality components are suitable for museum display, or your coffee table when guests come over. Quite enjoyable for those who find fun in something like Streetcar and makes a very nice outing for competing couples. The rules are few and not difficult, so it can even work well for your non-gameplaying friends. Seems to work best with the "save one tile" variant and in four-player mode where half the fun is figuring out what your partner is doing. Review B L
1998
Lotus	Dominique Tellier; Ravensburger; 1998 Simple racing abstract for up to four features stacked checkers which travel a number of spaces equal to the height at which they are stacked. The Lotus space adds the twist of being a space where no checker may stop, but must instead trampoline forward a number of spaces equal to those already moved. Although sometimes it seems a good game to for a computer to play to perfection, features a very accessible system and plenty of scope for tactical and strategic planning. The two-player game appears quite balanced while with more than that it is perhaps better to be the last player than the first. Each space features a different Chinese character which translated from end to start mean "Army", "Middle", "Light", "No", "Go", "Agile", "Lotus", "Car", "Go", "Big Tool", "House". From here, if one regards the board with "House" toward the bottom, the spaces on the left are "Truth", "Sky" and "Straight" while those on the right are "First", "Move" and "Black". In Ravensburger's Chinese edition, the title means something like "Chain Reaction Flying Dragon". [Review] (Luding: Keirat) Review B L
Mulan Matchin' Fashion Puzzle Game	Mattel; 2-4; 4+ Set collection with a movie tie-in. Includes four pagoda and sixteen puzzle pieces. B
Tichu	Urs Hostettler; Fata Morgana Spiele; 1998; 3-6 Trick-taking card game that seems to be quite closely related to the Chinese game Zheng Fen. The special pack for this game contains 56 cards, and is essentially like a standard pack with four jokers. The normal suits are replaced by suits of jade, sword, pagoda and star, and the four jokers, each of which has a special property, are the sparrow, the phoenix, the dragon and the dog. [translation] [Illustrations] (Association of Tichu Players) Review B L
1997
Shanghai	Sid Sackson; Ravensburger; 3-6 Players are bidding to place a marker which they hope will score. B L
1996
Chinatopf	Stefanie Rohner and Christian Wolf; HABA-Habermaaß; 2-4; 4+ "China Pot" is a dexterity game for children who must place wooden facsimile food pieces into a wok without tipping it over. B L
Flower of the Lotus	Bruno Faidutti; The Game Cabinet; 1996 Downloadable Game (Game Cabinet) Later published in physical form as China Moon. B L
1995
Mandarin	Jean du Poël; Historien Spielegalerie; B L
1994
Chinesische Mauer, Die	Sid Sackson; Piatnik & Söhne; 1994; 2-4 A tile-laying game about "The Wall of China". Large cardboard tiles exhibit criss-crossing paths in different colors. Players take turns choosing and placing any available tile with the twin goals of extending the length of one's own path and having the paths reach all four sides of the eventual total structure. What's especially tricky is that the exact locations of the corners aren't generally known until play is nearly over. [Review] (Deutsch) B L
1992
Verbotene Stadt, Die	Alex Randolph and Johann Rüttinger; Ravensburger; 2-4 Title means "The Forbidden City". Bluffing game of trying to retrieve the emperor's stolen wedding garments. [Rules] (Game Cabinet) B L
Wu Hsing	Sid Sackson; Franjos; 1992; 2-4 Title refers to the 5 Elements: air, water, earth, fire, metal. Players are placing tiles to create patterns; somewhat similar to Dominoes. B L
1991
Mandarin	Tom Kremer; Mattel; 3-5 Game for children that has the side effect of permitting you to discover in which of the twelve Chinese astrological years you were born. There is a tile dispenser which players take turns pushing to receive a tile. The first player to fill up his card with tiles of the right types wins. B L
1989
China Dragon	Rainer B. Balandies; Piatnik & Söhne; 1-6 This is a tile placement game in which players add parts to two intertwined dragons and continue to own each tile they place, the goal being to form the longest continuous owned chain. L
1987
Dampfross	David G. Watts; Rostherne Games; 2-6 There is a map of China for this popular railroading game. Review B L
I Ching	Fu Hsi; Hexagames/TST-Enterprises; One looks up one's fortune in the famous I Ching oracle. B L
Peking Akte, Die	Milton Bradley-1987,1988/Parker-Spiele-2002 A logical deduction game. Literally, "The Peking File", also published in English as The Mysteries of Peking. B L
1986
Chinese Word Building Game	Sun Ya Publications (HK) Ltd.; 2-6 Tiles contain Chinese words, radicals (parts of words) and strokes (even smaller parts of words). Players place these to build ever growing words. The English equivalent might be "automobile -> mobilehome -> homeowner", etc.
1986
Mhing	Robert Sun; Spear; 3-6 A simplified card version of Mah Jongg. Review B L
Shanghai Trader	Steve Barnes, Peter Wyche, Steve Utick and Dave O'Connor; Panther; 3-6 The corruption in Shanghai's International Bund during the early part of the 20th century. Players represent a national side, one of Americans, British, French, Germans, Russians or Japanese. Players attempt to dominate different areas of the city which gives special moneyraising powers, including the ability to extort money from other players. Often players are required to practically ruin other players with amazingly high cash demands. It is not surprising that the game often turns into a bitter shouting match. In addition, not only do players need to make the most money, they must get out to the airport and hope they can roll well enough to escape alive, an endeavor that needs a fair amount of luck. Each side has special powers, but if playing with more than three, these should be omitted since they are not balanced. Review B L
1984
Passage to Cathay	Eric Olson; Ragnarok Enterprises; 2-6 Trade in the Indian Ocean, 1680-1830. 2-5 hours Later re-released as Passage to Cathay Deluxe. B L
1982
Macao	Ravensburger; 2-5 Bidding game using dice and memory. B L
1981
James Clavell's Noble House	L. Ross Babcock III; FASA; 2-5 From the novel Noble House, set in Hong Kong's 1960's business world. [Review] (this site) Review B L
James Clavell's Tai-Pan	Albie Fiore and Ian Bailey; FASA; 3-4 From the novel Tai-Pan. From the novel of the same name, 1840's trading in Canton, Hong Kong, India and Europe. Players sail clipper ships from England to India where they buy up opium, from India to China where they sell the opium and pick up silk, tea and spices and then race back to England. Each clipper sailing is a race in which greater profits are realized for coming first, and realized in ways that are very sensible for the theme. Arriving in England first means one gets to sell at the highest price and then lower the prices of whatever was sold for the next clipper. But clipper speed is dependent on card play, cards which also affect prices, the faster the card, the more it lowers prices. A very nice tradeoff. Another tradeoff is deciding to skip buying opium and sailing to China directly in order to be the first to buy there. In China, it is not simply a mechanical matter, but instead one actually directs three small lorcha boats to the various Chinese ports to discover what commodities are available and at what prices. There is also a wares auction at Canton (later Hong Kong). A large number of flavorful event cards also make things interesting, although some may complain that there is too much luck in the "take that" cards. Definitely the best entry in the James Clavell series. Review B L
1973
Pagode	Valentin Siena; FX-Schmid; 2 Create patterns on a 9x9 grid to score and force your opponent into negative scoring patterns. B L
Ting Tong	Alex Randolph; Ravensburger; 2-4; 5+ A memory game in which tokens are hidden under the bells with the object of uncovering them in proper sequence. All of those uncovered properly are kept for points. L
1903
Voyage à Pékin	2-8; 4+ Each player leaves Europe from a different city, racing to reach Peking first. Each city has various directions from which to depart, which is determined by roll of a special die. L
c. 1845
Mah Jongg	A Rummy-like game, perhaps the progenitor of it in fact, of melding and discarding, often played for monetary stakes. However, is a challenging exercise without this additional drama. The traditional tiles provide nice tactile and even aural pleasures as they click, click, click along. Comes in Chinese, Japanese and American rules versions, with many additional variations besides. Those which do not use the flowers and seasons reduce the luck and are the most interesting for serious players. Probably invented around AD 1850 in the city of Ningpo, China, by two brothers from the earlier ma tiae. It was imported to the United States c. 1922 and in just two years became so popular that Congress had to enact a law regularizing the name under which it was published. Read more at http://www.daniel.gottesman.com/maj/majHistory.html or at http://members.aol.com/pungchw3/brief.htm. Mah Jong Handbook: How to Play, Score, and Win the Modern Game [analysis] [scoring chart] Review B L
1600
Sheng Guan Tu	Ni Yuan-Lu; public domain; 2-5 "Promotion Official Chart" invented by a calligrapher living in the Ming Dynasty period is similar to Snakes and Ladders. In it players roll a top similar to a dreidel and attempt to rise to the top of the bureaucracy. This game was banned during the Cultural Revolution and has gone out of print.
1120
Chinese Dominoes	Public domain game Unlike the Western set, a set consists of 32 tiles: one set of 1-2, 1-4, 2-3, 2-4, 2-5, 2-6, 3-4, 3-5, 3-6 and 4-5 two sets of 1-1, 1-3, 1-5, 1-6, 2-2, 3-3, 4-4, 4-6, 5-5, 5-6 and 6-6 The pips for one and four are red and six is half red-half white. Game Cabinet Intro Game Cabinet rules Wikipedia
204 BC
Xiang Qi	Also known as "Chinese Chess", the game probably has a common ancestor with Chess and similar mechanics. Some of the differences are that pieces travel on the line intersections rather than on the squares and the cannon pieces which are required to leap over others. Overall appears to have less depth than Chess. Review B L
2000 BC
Wei Qi	Better known in the United States as Go. Review B L
Uncertain
Chop Suey	unknown; Bartl; 1+; 5+ Dexterity game of using chopsticks to pick up wooden "morsels" from a platform and deposit them in a cup. B L
Chung Kuo Chung Tzu (Chinese Gentleman)	unknown; unknown; 2-4 Made in China, seems to be similar to Cootie, but instead of building a bug one constructs a man composed of blocks representing hat, head, torso, arms, legs and feet. Dice control what can be built. B [check availability]
5,000 Years of Chinese History	(published in Taiwan, Republic of China) Basically a variant of Monopoly in which players attempt to collect various properties and not go bankrupt from paying rents. Review
Ni Hao Kai-Lan Dragon Boat Race Game	unknown; Nickelodeon; 2-4; 3+ Players spin to move their boat; first to cross the line wins. Includes a dragon mask and encourages holding a Dragon Boat Festival parade after the third race. B [check availability]
Romance of the Three Kingdoms	(published in Taiwan, Republic of China) Roll-and-move game with almost no decisionmaking. Published in Taiwan, Republic of China. [Rules] (this site)
Der Schatz des Marco Polo	ASS (Altenburger und Stralsunder Spielkarten-Fabriken); 2-4; 8+ Players are in Hang Chow looking for the treasure that Polo stashed there. He also left clues in various places around town and players go around picking up these. Having enough, players can recover a treasure. But other players can track him down and try to take it away. [check availability]
Tian Di Hui	CW Karstens; unknown; 2-5 Card game of Triad gangs of the early 20th century. By purchasing black market item cards they build Poker hands to see who wins the round. B L
Zheng Fen	Card game from China is in the family of climbing games which includes Corporate Shuffle, The Great Dalmuti, Tichu, Zoff im Zoo, and others. This realization has some quirky rules. Since in communist society everyone is supposed to be equal, cards are not dealt as this would make the dealer subservient. Instead they are drawn from the top of the deck by each player. An illustration of the inefficiencies of communism! The game play is a bit strange as well as easy-to-achieve hands like the full house seem to have more values than those which are harder to form. Probably the least interesting form of this game one could play. Review [Rules] (Pagat)

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