Ten Days End

Everyone sat around the table. Dihou shuffled the deck of cards, then looked up at everyone calmly.

Qi Xia rubbed his forehead and said, "Dihou, are you really not going to explain the rules of this deck of cards?"

"Why, with your level, you should be able to guess in the game." Dihou carefully put down the cards, then took out a cigarette from his suit pocket and lit it.

Chen Junnan also felt that it was a bit unreasonable after hearing this, and after enduring for a long time, he still said, "Brother Monkey, then you really didn't violate the rules?"

"Oh?" Dihou blew out a puff of smoke and asked lightly, "How did you violate the rules?"

"The game you opened is a "casino", and as the agent of this "casino", you don't let the people who participate in gambling understand the rules?" Chen Junnan laughed, "Then you are really careless, when will this store go bankrupt?"

"Ha. "Dihou took the cigarette off and held it between his fingers. "Losing all the "Dao" because of unfamiliarity with the rules of a certain game is something that happens every day in this casino, so I really didn't violate the rules."

Qi Xia snorted coldly after hearing this: "But how boring is this?"

"Boring?"

"You have been looking forward to it for so long, and finally you can use this "New Moon", but you are going to win by using the information gap?" Qi Xia reached out and touched his chin, "Is this all the tactics you can think of? What are you afraid of?"

Dihou's eyes wandered slightly when he heard this, as if he was repeatedly pondering Qi Xia's words. After a few seconds, he sighed slightly and said: "You are right. In order to make the game go smoothly, I still have to tell you some common sense questions. "

Qi Xia didn't know what Di Hou was thinking about, so he could only cross his arms and wait for his explanation.

Di Hou put the shuffled cards on the table. Everyone saw that there were not many cards in this deck, and the total number should be less than a deck of poker, about thirty or forty cards.

He lifted up the top card of the pile and put it on the table, revealing its face.

There were only two regular script Chinese characters on it -

"Mang Zhong".

Di Hou looked at this card, and then lifted the second card from the pile and showed it to everyone.

"Mid-Autumn Festival".

Everyone knew what the cards meant when they saw these two cards. "Mang Zhong" is one of the 24 solar terms, and "Mid-Autumn Festival" is a traditional festival. This deck of cards has a total of more than 30 cards, and it is very likely that all the cards of the 24 solar terms and traditional festivals have been included. But what kind of game would it be to play with this deck of cards?

"At the beginning of the game, a "common card" will be drawn and placed in the center of the table for everyone to see. "Then everyone draws two cards, one bright and one dark. The bright card can be shown to everyone, and the dark card can only be viewed by yourself."

Qi Xia nodded after hearing this: "Then what?"

"Ha..." The ground monkey showed a weird smile, "Then we need to use the two cards in our hands, plus the "public card" in the middle of the table, and use three cards to compare the size with everyone. The one with the largest card will win all the chips on the table. "

"Compare the size...?"

These three words made everyone look puzzled.

There are only Chinese characters on these cards. What is the meaning of "comparing the size"? Is it to compare the date?

But if you really compare the date, why use the "bright card" and "dark card" in your hand plus the "public card" in the middle of the table?

Wouldn't it be more direct for everyone to draw a card to compare the size?

"As for the winning conditions... you can rest assured." The ground monkey said, "My "casino" has a bottom line after all. If your cards are bigger than mine, I will not deny it, that is, there is no "false reporting". You won, but I cheated, which is really against the rules. "

"Then... how to decide the winner?" Qi Xia asked again, "Is it decided in one round?"

"No... of course not." The ground monkey shook his head, "I finally got to take out my "New Moon", how can it be decided in one round?"

He picked up the two cards on the table, shuffled them again, and then said: "Eight rounds, a total of eight rounds of games, after which no matter what the chips are, the game is considered over."

Qi Xia frowned and nodded after hearing this.

Now they not only have to find a way to figure out the rules within eight rounds, but also win enough "Tao" in these eight rounds to redeem six people.

"How many "Tao" can be obtained in that round?" Xiao Cheng asked on the side.

"Good question. "The monkey said, "At the beginning, everyone pays a "Dao", and then everyone is given a "open card". Everyone needs to show this "open card", and then the person with the largest date on the card starts to choose whether to raise the bet. "

"Raise the bet? "

"That's right." The ground monkey nodded, "After all, this is a casino, and the casino has its own rules. After the first person raises the bet, the remaining people will make three choices in clockwise order, either "admit defeat", "follow the bet", or continue to choose "raise the bet". As the name suggests, admitting defeat means giving up the "way" that has been bet on the table and choosing to stop the loss in time. "Follow the bet" will take out the same chips as the first person, while the "raise" chips must be more than the first person. "

Several people nodded after listening.

"And once someone "raises the bet" in the middle, the remaining people who have not "admitted defeat" must restart the three choices in clockwise order until everyone "admits defeat" or everyone "follows the bet". "After the ground monkey finished speaking, he glanced at everyone, "These are all basic table rules, am I clear enough? ”

Several people showed hesitation at this time. Although what Dihou said was not difficult to understand, they did not understand the most critical rules.

How can we compare the size of the cards?

After getting the cards, how can we know whether our cards are worth "betting"?

And there is a more difficult problem for everyone.

Even if this game is really to compare the dates of the 24 solar terms and traditional festivals, traditional festivals are easy to say, but who can accurately tell the dates of the 24 solar terms?

Which date is bigger, "Bailu", "Guyu" or "Mangzhong"?

They can only hope that it is not the date that needs to be compared, but the number of strokes of the characters on the cards, otherwise the difficulty of this game will soar to an incredible height.

"Whether you understand or not... this game can only tell you this much." After saying this, Dihou looked up at the six people sitting in front of him, "Do all of you want to participate in this gamble?"

Tiantian and Xiao Cheng turned their heads to look at Zheng Yingxiong at the same time, while Chen Junnan whispered to Qi Xia: "Old Qi, do you know the exact dates of the 24 solar terms?"

Qi Xia rubbed his forehead after hearing this. Although he felt a little dizzy now, he knew that the problem was not here at all.