The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-04-21
PAX KAP Pc.
How the Chinese Lottery Game Is
Run.

Run.
The recent raid by Marshal Soper on Chi
nese gamblers in Hotel and Maunak ca
streets in this city resulted not only in
catching the parties running the game, but
also in the capture of their outfit. This Is
now at the station-house, and the nod,es
oper0nda as explained to an ADVERTISER re-
porter. will be described The game is
called
PAK RAP 20,
And is essentially a gambling one, differing
from lotteries or rafies in this important
particular. In the former games some one
or more persons are sure to win the prizes,
while in the Chinese game to be described
hereafter, it may happen that no one wins
anything. PAX Kap Pc is carried on as
| follows: Tickets about four inches square of
thin paper are prepared, on which are
| printed ten rows Of characters, each row
| containing eight characters. These tickets
are sold for any sum the purchaser chooses
to invest, running from five cents to So 80,
| the prizes being certain number of times
| the amount paid, as will be explained fur
Their on. These tickets are hawked about
| the streets by agents who have, besides the
single tickets they sell, others bound in a
book.
SELECTING CHANCES.
When ticket is purchased the buyer is II
liberty to mark out as many of the eighty
characters as he chooses, up to ten. The
agent then marks one of the tickets in his
book in the same manner and puts the num-
Der or name of the purchaser on the mar
or,,, r. Ill
days work he turns in his book and the
cash he has received to the banker or secre-
tary of the firm that runs the lottery, and |
is paid his commission. The @ drawings
if they can be called such, take place twice
day, between aud 3 o'clock, and again at
and 9 o'clock, p. m, and it is to attend these
drawings that so many of the Chinese ser
wants employed about Honolulu go into
town so regularly. At the place where
THE DRAWING
Is carried on (Which need not be, and in
fact rarely is anywhere near the bankers or
secretary's place of business), a large sheet
of paper ruled in eighty squares is hung up,
and on each square is lightly fastened by
one corner a bit Of paper on which is a char
acter corresponding to the one in the like
SQuHEe on J0e l1ChSl5 SOlu. IOuT common
bowls are then placed on table and the
bits of paper being pulled off the large bull
letin sheet, are folded up, thoroughly mixed,
and then dropped, one at a time, in to the
bowls until there are twenty bits of paper
in each bowl. Then four small squares of |
tin, each numbered from 1 to 4, are placed, !
one in each bowl. on top of the twenty bits
of paper -Four pieces of paper are then
marked from / to 4, folded up, mixed, and
any one of the bystandcrs picks ont one
This is opened and the bowl bearing the cor
tin tag Is selected. the others
being put ON one side. 1t is the twenty
characters in the howl selected that are
then stuck on the bulletin sheet and are the
winning ones. 1t will be seen that sixty out
Of eighty of the original characters are en-
tirely of the g drawing" and out of the
twenty, none of the ten on his
ticket may be among those displayed OH the
bulletin sheet.
THE BULLETIN
Is consulted daily by holders of tickets, and
if any one finds n sufficient number of the
characters he has previously marked ont on
his ticket displayed he can claim the follow
ing prizes: If less than five of the num-
bers he has marked are shown the buyer
If five, he gets his money
back. If six, he gets fifteen times the
amount of his stake. If seven, $50 times
the amount. If eight $50 times. If nine,
1 500 times and if ten, he is entitled to
8 900 times the amount of his original in
estment. The limit that can be won is
SO, 600 on ten numbers marked on 4 ticket
for which So 80 has been paid.
VERIFYING THE WINNING TICKET.
Whenever q party claims a prize his
ticket is compared with the dupliGa tie in the
books handed in by the agents. As these
books are often hastily marked with a brush
filled with India ink, disputes frequently
arise when any considerable prize is claimed,
and in any event 10 per cent is deducted
from the amount claimed The largest
prize ever drawn here was one for 1900
times the amount invested. In that case
the winner was paid 81, $50.
1t will be seen that the chances are enor-
mously in favor of those who run the game,
they very seldom being called upon to pay
any considerable amount in prizes.
Police Court.