Chinese Culture, Cards; Dodiju (english spelling/pronunciation) and unknown name game

[Chameleon Gangster]

A little background information: I go to university and I have a lab partner that so happens to be a chinese exchange student. He and I hit it off rather quickly as friends, despite the language barrier.

Since my wife and I were throwing a house party one night, I invited him to come.

The funny thing is his culture wouldn't let him be outdone, the day before he made sure to invite my wife and I to a barbeque that he and his other Chinese foreign exchange student friends were throwing. We helped them barbeque for their first time in America. They had some ideas that were sound, like kabobs, but other things they did wrong. They mistranslated and obtained sweet potatoes instead of potatoes, though, cloves of garlic and only garlic on certain kabobs, celery on certain kabobs, and they also felt grilling english muffins was a good idea. They were right on the corn though, and I guess they did buy some bud light and pop to drink. Overall not a bad barbeque, even though it had a few odd food items. Two other interesting things we noticed about their differences were that they all ate food as they went along cooking it, and that they also didn't believe in trash bags with trash cans in the slightest. I looked all over for one almost immediately, and they didn't have one (there apartment didn't have one either). They just used bags from walmart/kroger as trash bags as they went along. Overall it was the most interesting barbeque my wife or I have ever attended.

At my party, the chinese guy that's my friend and one of the other guys from the barbeque showed me the card game dodiju, basically it translated roughly to slave master, or to put it kindly as they also put it, boss. Now, in American cards, the big winner gets all the chips right? In Chinese cards (both games I played, including dodiju), this isn't so. You are a winner as long as you aren't the big loser. Basically, the big loser must do a predetermined, arbitrary number of pushups (like 5). Now onto the rules of dodiju: There can be three or four people. The cards are shuffled and a card is flipped over by the dealer somewhere in the middle of the deck. Cards are handed out to everyone counter-clockwise one by one until the card is met which is upside down. The person that gets this one is the dodiju, or "boss". They choose the amount of pushups the big loser does. Now, the bad thing if you lose as the dodiju, is that you have to do double (if three people are playing) or triple (if four people or playing) the number of pushups if you are the big loser. Now what makes you the big loser? Basically, the most powerful card is the joker. The next is the 2. The ace is the next most powerful. Then King, queen, jack, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, and 3 rounding out the weakest card. The boss goes first. If he has any pairs, or three or four of a kind, he should probably play these. Or if he has 5 cards of like sequence in a row, he can play those as well. If he has none of these, he should play his highest card (or lowest, dep. on strategic times). The only way he could get beat, say if he tossed out a pair of 2's, which be a pair of jokers. If he plays a pair of 8's though, then someone may play something larger to beat him. Options to play goes in a counterclockwise motion. If nobody has a pair higher than dodiju the first turn, then he can keep making plays. (To beat a sequence of 5, the overall sequence must be of higher numbers, ie a 4,5,6,7,8 would beat a 3,4,5,6,7). The goal of the game is to keep making as many plays as possible until your cards run out. When everyone's cards are out except for the last person, the game is over and they are then punished with pushups.

I'm too high and lazy to explain the other game but it is something to this effect as well.

I hope you all enjoyed my post and my look into chinese culture that I've experienced the last couple of weeks.

[Mirana]

[Chameleon Gangster]

Originally Posted by Mirana

You're the type of person that would read a classic story at face-value and not realize that there is something deeper beneath the rather simplistic surface story. It's called symbolism of culture and culture ideals, and there is plenty to be gained and seen from my post if you'd care to extract it yourself. I felt it fit well in this forum because of that. You should go "Cool Story Bro" somewhere fucking else...like in my post in bat country.

[Proots]

Hahahaha, hey - that's cool man. It sounds like despite all the funny differences - you all still managed to have a good time. It's always cool getting a little taste of foreign cultures. It's good that you made your friend feel welcome and that you made some memories!

Sounds like quite the game, though. Not for the unfit!

[Struwwelpeter]

Shh... Don't let the faggots know that stuff like this exists... They'll have it criminalized for it's "exploitative" nature and in the future you'll have to leave the country to play it.

[FoodStamps]

nice read

[Chameleon Gangster]

Originally Posted by FoodStamps

nice read

dude I'm drunk off a 40 of 211 atm...funny I was just about to post about being drunk off of it in alcholics thread in BLTC, just logged on n then my thread here popped up...read this thing seen your avatar and here I am postin....\

I'mmma take a nap before work in 2 hrs...lol....started drinkin at 11:30 am btw...did a lab that confirmed the schulze-hardy rule today from 7 to 11 am....im tired...work from 6 to 9:30 pm tonight...im still drunk/hung over

[FoodStamps]

yeeaaah am drunk off some 211s as well right now, it was a nice read. I have some Chinese co-workers (i think they maybe from Taiwan though) and it was cool learning about some of their card games.