Set of 83 domino playing cards, printed with red or black dots on obverse, plain black on reverse. The set consists of four subsets of the 21 dominoes pattern used for the game of tian jiu, heaven nine, which is played by four players. One of the playing cards, which would complete a set of 84, with a pattern on each half of three black dots at the edge and four red dots in the centre is missing.
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