Chapter 63: The talus

Hearing the bet, Cantu's eyes lit up, and he leaned forward with great interest and asked, "Okay!

Diarlando shrugged his shoulders and said indifferently, "Whatever, as long as you can solve it quickly." After all, every second of my time is precious. ”

The blonde elf rubbed his hands excitedly, and then began to mutter, "Oh, what a bet." Bet on what color dress Fina is wearing today, and bet on how many green mussels will be left in the undersea ranch at low tide?"

Diarrando's face became worse and worse as he listened to those freewheeling bets, what the hell was this, it was just a matter of luck.

Dan, who had been quiet, suddenly spoke: "Since it's a gamble, then why don't we gamble on the traditional?" After saying that, he poured out the teacup in front of him, and then took out nine strangely shaped bone products from his arms and threw them in.

The ivory-colored knick-knacks have four faces, each of which is engraved with a different pattern, which is a circle, a triangle, a square, and a five-pointed star, and there are also four colors of black, blue, red, and green. Two of the faces are curved, so when they are scattered, they point in different directions, revealing different patterns.

"This is the talus, a game item for our last tribute. We call this kind of game chance. The rule is simple, I throw nine talus bones into an opaque container, shake it, and then when I buckle it on the table, you're going to have to guess. There are many ways to play, such as guessing how many ...... a certain pattern has"

As he spoke, he quickly shook the teacup that was clasped on the table, and the bone artifacts the size of his little fingertip collided inside the bone china teacup and made a nice ding-dong sound. Then, as he shook faster and faster, he was lifted directly from the table.

Keeping his wrist spinning at high speed, he showed the mouth of the teacup to Dearlando and the elf, then jerked it back onto the table.

"You can say your prediction before I open the teaglass, how many circles or how many squares. You can also guess how many reds there are or how many blacks. The most complicated one is to guess the color and shape correctly, how about a fun bet?" Dan said, uncovering the teacup to reveal the talus that was still tumbling underneath.

Eventually all the little tetrahedron stopped, three red, two green, one black, and three blue. In the case of a pattern, there are two triangles, four circles, a square, and a five-pointed star.

"Yes! I've played this game a few times before, the last time I went to play it. He also won a beautiful woman named Baha from your king. Unfortunately, she did not adapt to our environment here, and fell ill and died less than half a year after coming to Hovland. Cantu's eyes lit up, and he happily picked up the nearest talus he was leaning on, then looked at Deerrando and asked, "How's that? But have you played this before? I think it's a little unfair to you. ”

Dearrando also took a talus. I flipped it in the palm of my hand. Then throw it on the desktop to see how it scrolls. Finally, he put it in the teacup again, and Xue Dan shook it like that, listening to the sound of the collision. Dr. Wat had shown him this stuff. It can also be seen occasionally in Augustus' hotels and casinos. But he is not a good gambler, so he has only seen it, but he has never participated in it.

"I haven't played it, so it's a real bit of luck......," he confesses, admitting that he doesn't know much about the game, "but it doesn't matter, the so-called bet has to be risky to be exciting." ”

Cantu clapped his hands happily and said, "That's right! You have to have this mentality to be fun." Since you're a newbie, I'll leave it all up to you to choose what to guess and what to answer first. Because if you say the right answer, the person behind you will answer the same as you, and he loses, how about it?"

Diarrando smiled and said, "Okay, Dan, I'm sorry for you." With that, he threw the little bone in his hand back in front of the man.

Fayl approached the table with great interest, picked up a small bone and played with it. He had never seen a game like this before, but his mind was racing to see how such a game could be 100% successful.

His sensitive hands felt the slight difference in weight on each side of the bone, and he could feel the difference in the texture of the different paints as his nails scraped over the painted patterns. Such a thing, in the hands of a well-trained person, should be able to spill whatever kind of result you want. So it seems that Dan is planning to release water on Dearlando to help him win as soon as possible?

When the mage returned the talus to Dan, he looked at the other man's plain face, and then thought to himself, "If he hadn't thought about it at all, he would have a ghost if he was dedicated to helping Diarlando." ”

But looking at Dearlando's calm look, it seems that Dan is really at ease. The mage shook his head inwardly, and he couldn't figure out what cards Dirrando had.

Dan quickly swept the table with his teacup, swept all nine talus bones into it, and then shook it in mid-air, then reached out and motioned for Deirlandor to say the range of his guess.

Diarlando thought for a moment and said, "Guess the shape, tell the number." ”

After asking Cantu's permission, Dan shook the teacup for a while, and then slammed it on the table like last time: "You can talk about your results. ”

“...... Well, three triangles, two circles, four stars, no square. Dearrando thought about it for a moment, gave the answer, and then he asked another question: "If we are all wrong, then who wins?"

Dan smiled and said, "The priority of the large number of sides is high, and whoever guesses the most advanced is close to win." For example, now that you have four stars, you guessed the rest. And he guessed everything else correctly, but the number of stars is wrong, then you win. ”

Kantu rubbed his hands nervously and said, "You really haven't played before, you don't even know this rule." I guess two triangles, two circles, one square, and four stars. Let's go!"

Dan unveiled the teacup under the gaze of everyone, and the small bones on the white shell table clearly showed three triangles, two circles, one square, and three stars.

"Ah......h

"The stars were all wrong, and the triangle Dearlandor was right, so he won the first game. Dan glanced at the results and immediately reported the answer. Dearlando clenched his fists happily, and Cantu stomped his foot in frustration.

Soon the second round began again, and this time it was the elves who won by a narrow margin. After a back and forth, both men have won once, and the final round will be the decisive moment.

The teacup spun again, flapping up and down, and the nine talus bones collided and knocked against each other in it, constantly whirling, attracting ten eyeballs to stare at them closely. Everyone's attention at the scene was diverted by what was in Dan's hand, and only the Dreadhorn King still looked like he was under control, staring blankly at the wall.

Finally, when Dan put down the teacup heavily, there was a constant sound of talus colliding in the teacup, apparently he added continuous rotation force to his hand this time, and it seemed that the talus bone would continue to rotate in the cup, and it would not gradually stop until he opened the teacup. This made it difficult for both Dierlando and Cantu, who had originally relied on their voices to judge the results.

However, there was no displeasure on the faces of the two people, but it aroused the interest of the challenge even more.

"One triangle, two circles, five stars, and one square!" Diarlandor closed his eyes and thought for a second before he said his final answer. Cantu then reported the result: "Two squares, two circles, two stars, three triangles." ”

In the expectant eyes of everyone, Dan opened the teacup.

The talus gradually stopped under the realization of everyone. Two circles, two squares, two stars...... As the last three talus bones grew slower, Dearlando's face became even more ugly. Seeing that he was about to lose this important gamble in front of him, there was nothing he could do.

At this time, the Dreadhorn King, who had been stunned, suddenly stood up from his seat and slammed the table. By the time Fayer regained his strength, all the talus bones that had been on the table had been stopped had moved. It suddenly became one triangle, two circles, five stars, and one square! (To be continued......

PS: Lie down on the ground