Games with dice are favourites in all Asiatic countries, but the men themselves and the games played with them are far more elaborate and scientific than those of Europe, and capable of a great variety of combinations quite unknown to English-speaking nations. The mathematical calculations necessary for the Asiatic games are intricate and complicated, but well worthy of adoption. About 1815 the Germans issued a pack of cards that had dice on them instead of the commonplace pips. The set in the writer's collection is incomplete and incomprehensible without the rules, that have been lost. The cards have the dice on the lower half, while the upper part displays different designs, such as a diligence, a ship, a bookcase, and an easy chair. The two designs last mentioned have "doctor" printed under them. [Illustration: GAMBLING, HISTORICAL AND EDUCATIONAL CARDS 95-96 Spanish Cards showing Four of Cups (with name Naypes, meaning prophetical) and Knave of Money (with the gazelle of Osiris). 97 English Educational Cards--historical. One of the Jubilee pack containing Queen Victoria and all her descendants. 98 Netherlands Domino Card for teaching music. 99 United States Domino Card. 100 United States Numbered Card for game of Grabouche or Flinch. 101 United States Educational Card for game of Authors. 102 English Educational Card for teaching arithmetic.] Games of dice are probably the oldest known, and are found in all Asiatic countries. The evolution from them to dominos is easily traced, for the latter is evidently a pair of dice placed together. The pieces in a Korean set of dominos in the writer's collection are of the size that a pair of European dice would make if glued side by side. Besides the games of chance, dice are used for divining purposes all over the world, but particularly in Africa and Asia. Jackstones, or Knuckle-bones, is another old game. There is in the British Museum a most interesting marble group of boys playing Jackstones. A lively dispute, if not an active fight, over the result of the game is in progress, and the little men are scattered over the ground while the boys wrestle. Jackstones may be of many different materials, although those most commonly used are the simple round pebbles found by any roadside. A set in the writer's collection is of bone, which was common in New York about 1850. Others are of glass and are said to be Phoenician. Ivory and sheeps' knuckles are favourites with children, who in modern times have added a small rubber ball for a Jack.