adunaphell@shaw.ca wrote: > >>> Looking in the window you see groups or 3 to 5 people seated at > >>> tables facing a large screen with colored numbers on it at the > >>> other end of the room. A man is spinning a large wheel and each > >>> time the wheel stops another colored number is added to those > >>> already on the screen. The people at the tables tap at > >>> something in front of them on the tables with some sort of > >>> stylus after each number appears. You can see that as each > >>> number appears on the screen another number, you think it might > >>> be a number of credits, goes down a little. > >> > >> OOG - Is it a wheel like a roulette wheel or a wheel like one of > >> those carnival win a buck if your number comes up wheels? > > > > It is a large metal wheel with numbers ranging from 00 to 99 around > > its rim. The numbers light up as the wheel is spun in red, blue or > > green in what appears to be a random pattern. When the wheel stops > > all the lights go out except for the one number at the top of the > > wheel. This is the number the man is calling out and writing on a > > dry erase board. > > > >> Lysia comes in and observes the game trying to figure out the > >> rules on her own before having to ask someone. > > > > Lysia, once inside, sees that each of the people seated at the > > tables is making marks on a piece of paper in front of them. The > > paper is covered with a grid of numbers, also in a random pattern > > of red, green and blue, and the players appear to be putting black > > marks on any gridded number of the correct color that is called > > out. That seems fairly straight forward to Lysia, but there are > > clearly some sort of "side bets" going on as some of the players > > place coins into the middle of the table on one of three colored > > pads. After the number and color are called out, the "winning" > > color collects the coins from the other pads and all the coins are > > divided among those that placed their coin on the winning color. > > > > While Lysia watches, she sees a woman approaching her. The woman is > > holding several of the sheets of multicolored paper in one hand. > > > > She says to Lysia, "Two creds a card, three for five. Coins, five a > > cred if you wanna pichi." > > Lysia smiles, "Oh I'm just trying to figure it out right now, give me > a couple minutes and I'm sure my wallet can handle a little > reducing." > > After watching for a few more minutes to the point were she figures > she's got a good handle on the game Lysia sets herself a limit of > fifty credits to lose, her mother always taught her to be frugal when > it comes to games of chance, and jumps into the game with three > tickets. Lysia picks a table and sits down. There are a list of colored numbers on the board and she finds a few of them on her cards, so she marks them. It looks like the object is to make a straight line from one side to another and each time a number and color is called the amount to be won decreases. The side bets, the pichi, are for what color will come up next with those that participate at each table putting the coins on the colors of their choice and the winner splitting all coins on the losing colors. Not long after Lysia starts playing a woman jumps up from one of the tables and screams, "Mucho Pichi!" and jumps up and down while she waves her card. There is a smattering of applause from around the room as well as a few groans as everyone shoves their cards into a slot in the center of the table and ponies up more money as people move around the room selling more of the cards. While this is going on, one of the people at Lysia's table, an older man, looks at her and says, "Having seen you recently? I heard you were taking a long vacation on Montrose, Maria." Eris AKU GM
