Twelve tokens, marked upper, middle, and lower. Cast like dice, counted, and the count becomes one of a hundred and twenty-five outcomes, each carrying a four-character verse in the manner of the Book of Changes.
Legend gives it to the old man on the bridge who taught Zhang Liang. The written method appears by the fifth century, and six manuscripts of it survived a thousand years sealed in the Dunhuang desert library.
The sticks answer in mercy, at the temple. The chess answers in strategy, at the table. The two are being built as one set, two volumes, two rooms: see Kau Cim, the hundred sticks.
Status, honestly: the tokens are being cut, and the hundred and twenty-five verses translated from the Dunhuang-witnessed text. This room opens soon.