Draughtsmen or checkers are made of many different materials, such as clay, bone, wood, and ivory. Some old ones in the British Museum are of ivory, two inches in diameter, and were found in Leicestershire. On one of them is a figure like Il Pendu, or the Hanged Man, of the Atouts. In the writer's collection there are some draughtsmen of unpainted wood most beautifully carved. One of them displays a winged figure with a cap of Mercury hanging over his head, on top of which is perched a die, a Four Spot on one side of it, while the other displays an Ace. The cap is suspended in the air over a table covered with a fringed cloth, on which rests a rose and a laurel wreath. A motto surrounding the checker reads: _Fert Praemia Favsta_. On the reverse is a hand emptying a purse on a Backgammon board, the legend being _Freqvens Tibidissipat Avrum_. Another checker, a mate to the above, shows a table on which is a Backgammon board and two players busy over the game. The man is seated, while the woman is standing with arms upraised, and having evidently just lost a game, is upbraiding her companion. The motto is _Ars Sortem Corrigat Astx_. The reverse shows a draped Cupid opening a money chest, the motto being _Sat Loevlo Havt Ocvio_. A black man of this set shows a warrior talking to a harpist, the motto being _Juam Rari Amici Chari_. The reverse shows a figure of Mercury, as Luck, with a philosopher and a courtier trying to hold the flying figure with ropes that have been thrown around the waist of the flitting god. The motto is _Ah Fortuna Bona Me Condona_. These checkers are part of a set that was once in Lady Charlotte Schriber's collection of games. They are probably of German manufacture, as they closely resemble sets of draughtsmen that are in the Nuremburg and Munich collections. In Korea the game of Draughts is a favourite one. The pieces are not flat and round, like those of Europe, but the "horses," as they are named in Korea, have shanks about two inches long, with round, solid bases, making them easy to pick up and move, but they would be awkward if the game called for "jumping," as does that of European players. With this exception, the rules for playing resemble those common in Europe. The Japanese, the Siamese, and the Chinese all play the game with the assistance of dice, and the men as well as the boards show an origin common with those already mentioned. They are games of luck or chance, but are not used for fortune-telling, and have nothing in common with cards, arrow divination, or prophesying, unless students can hereafter trace them to the Urim and Thummim of the Bible.