Chinese Toys and Games By: Alice kresberg

Imagine you are in your room with no dominoes, kites, playing cards, and hacky sacks or other toys to play with. That would be very boring.

How Dominoes Were Invented Do you play with Dominoes? Do you think Dominoes are just toys? Back in ancient china, when people thought dominoes told the future, but now people think dominoes is just a fun game to play. Chinese dominoes are used in several tile based games, namely, Tien Gow, Pai Gow, Tiu, and Tai Kap Shandap.

When were kites invented? Well kites were invented more than 3,000 years ago. Today if it’s a nice day and it is a bit to windy go fly a kite outside.

How did playing cards get invented? Playing cards were invented by the Chinese by the 9 th century CE, after paper and woodblock printing had become available.

How was the hacky sack invented? The Chinese invented the hacky sack for more than 2,000 years Chinese kids have been playing the hacky sack.