Sho (board game)

Sho is a widely used in Tibet dice game.

History

Sho Sho or Para is a historic game that hundreds of years ago was only distributed on the Tibetan plateau. Only after the Chinese invasion in 1950 it became known by refugees in India, where it is also played today. The British explorer Sir Charles Bell wrote already during his expedition to Lhasa in the years 1920/21 " Sho is the national game of the Tibetans, which is included by all, rich and poor, the rural population played. " ( Sho is the national Tibetan gambling game, played by all, high and low, the peasantry included. ) Heinrich Harrer also dealt with the game ( 1950), though he as he wrote, not even played it.

Game

The game is played with two dice, a dice cup, a cube pillow, 64 mussels and nine coins for each player. The number of players may be two or three players.