The game used to be called Drop-pan in Jamaica, now it is called Cashpot .

#	Cashpot	DropPan
1	duppy	Ghost, milk, clothes, rice, anything white
2	small fire, batty	Anus, sitting, bed, crab
3	dead	Dead, duck, tongue
4	egg, sex	Egg, blood, wine, breast, sexual intercourse
5	thief	Thief, dirt
6	strong man, stone	Strong man, iron, running
7	married woman, hog	Married woman, hog
8	belly, hole	Belly, belly woman, hole, bag, ring
9	old man, old dead	Married man, cow, ol' dead, brain
10	small house, crib, coop	Small house, car, gaol, small boat, animal pen
11	boy, two legs	Boy, dog
12	head	Head, common horse
13	police, black woman	Knife, cutlass, policeman, butcher, old man, fisherman
14	mouth	Mouth, undertaker, wild puss, doorway
15	running, swimming	Weak, rat, running coolie woman
16	young girl	Young gyal, grass, tree, bees, anything green
17	old dead, chiney man	Chineyman, drapan player, gambling, brown man
18	doctor, doctor bird, doctor fish	Doctor, race-horse, tame puss
19	silver money	Silver, coolie man, hair, scale
20	sick	Sick, bed, food, meat, naked
21	bad girl	Whore, mule, bad
22	white woman	Nurse, white woman, pigeon, coffin, bird, queen
23	black man	Black man, monkey
24	fresh water	Fresh water, medicine
25	john crow	John crow, crowd, paper money
26	white man	White man, king, Jesus
27	big fire	Fire, accident, gun, madman
28	fowl	Road, fowl, pasture, commons, graveyard
29	parson	Parson, bull, ram, male of any species, right foot
30	fish	Fish, flowers, rum, mud
31	lizard, long stick, penis	Pulpit, kaki, wood, small rope
32	gold	Gold, ****, ripe fruit, beggar
33	big house	Big house, hospital
34	baby	Gyal-baby, soldier
35	goat, vagina	She-goat, ******, bible
36	old woman	Hong Kong, foreign country, old lady, donkey

The Chairman identified illegal Cash Pot, unlicensed gambling premises and unlicensed slot machines as the most prevalent illegal gambling offences in Jamaica.

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THE JAMAICAN-CHINESE

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1953, Mr. Samuel Kong with his wife, Wong Fong Yin, and their eight children. Courtesy of the Kong family.

By this time, in the 1940s, many of the second-generation, those who were truly Jamaican-Chinese, began to rebel against their parents' desires to remain wedded to Chinese culture. They left the family business, went into other professions and embraced aspects of Jamaican culture. Many also converted to Roman Catholicism. Resentment from African-Jamaicans waned as tolerance of aspects of Chinese culture grew and some amalgamations occurred.

One of the most notable examples is the numbers game 'drop pan.' Drop Pan in Cantonese 'Jih Fah' and Hakka 'Sue Fah,' is named for the fact that tickets numbered 1 to 36 are dropped in a pan to see who wins. Many players play based on dreams and portents, although some play by odds based on a study of the pattern of play. Drop Pan is said to have arrived in Jamaica with the earliest Chinese immigrants in the 1850s. It was restricted by the government as early as 1898. This law was amended in the 1920s due to the game's substantial popularity.

Today, drop pan's meanings are most likely both Chinese and Afro-Jamaican in origin. According to Barry Chevannes in a Jamaica Journal article on Drop Pan,

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'the number 7 means married woman and hog. In Chinese custom a son-in-law makes a gift of a pig or pork to his mother-in-law every New Year.
The number 11 means baby boy and dog. Among the Chinese, the dog is a blessing as are newborn males'.
The number 8 stands for belly, belly (pregnant) woman, hole or ring, all of which could be related to Rastafarian belief that 'a woman has no lineage. A woman is only a vessel'.

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l have known of similar games in other Colonies under different names such as 'Drop Pan' and the more oriental name of 'Peaka Pow', but l must say that the ethics of those games are on a much higher standard than those of whe whe, for at least those who contribute are given a sporting chance (however remote that may be) of some success, but the game as played here has no redeeming feature whatever, l am sorry to say. lt is impossible to control those who promote the game, and they are so able to manipulate the winning numbers that they choose those on which there has been the least amount of contributions, and by that way they are able to retain by far the largest amount of money involved. Those who go about soliciting subscriptions, commonly called 'markers', have a very wide latitude. They get somebody to choose a particular number, and if per chance this happens to be the winning number the marker goes back to his friend and says 'l am very sorry. l was too late'. As a matter of fact he is never too late but ...

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More popular among women are the street corner games, peaka-peow and drop-pan, both Chinese numbers games. Drop-pan. where even a five cent bet may be placed, underlines the precarious financial position of many Selton Town

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Encyclopedia of Jamaican heritage by Olive Senior

DROP PAN Folk lottery brought by CHINESE immigrants, an illegal game that is still played though not as widely as it once was. This is a numbers game: books of tickets numbered from 1-36 are sold by vendors working for the 'banker' who is the person running the game. Each numbered ticket sold is dropped into a pan for the draw, each draw or play being called a 'pan'. All holders of the number drawn become winners. Each number is assigned a special meaning or several meanings ('mark'), some originally brought from China, others developed in Jamaica, eg the number 1 signifies 'white', 18 'doctor', and so on. Purchases are therefore often based on dreams, guesses, signs ('rakes'), or TOKENS of the number or symbol, and Dream Books are sometimes consulted. Drop Pan is also called Tyshin and Woppy and in other parts of the CARRIBEAN, Whe-whe. The game is still popular in the DANCEHALL-environment, with specially coded meanings assigned to the numbers.

PEAKA-PEOW Gambling game introduced and run by the CHINESE, like DROP PAN, once very popular - though illegal. From a paper with 120 numbers, 30 are secretly chosen by the throw of a dice; the player marks 8 numbers on a piece of paper and wins if any of these numbers correspond to any of the 30 chosen.

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drop-pan : a national numbers game

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Another game is known as drop-pan from the method of play. One buys from a book of tickets (/tai shiin/ is the Chinese name by which this generally goes) numbered from 1 to 36, each ticket representing something — for example, a part of the body. Later the tickets are dropped in a pan to see which wins. A rake is a 'hunch' — a sign or token that guides one in buying a drop-pan ticket. The person who feels he has got this token may say, 'I ketch de rake.' Money Jamaica has adopted or developed a number of names and nicknames for coins

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#Kingston, March 1, 2019 – Jamaica – State Minister for Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Alando Terrelonge, is imploring adolescents to refrain from participating in underage gambling, as this may negatively impact their education.

“Your education is the best gift that you can give to yourselvesnot gambling…Your education is the one thing that will last for the rest ofyour life. So do not gamble with your education. If you do gamble, you aregambling with your education,” he said.

The Minister was speaking at the awards ceremony for RISE LifeManagement Services’ adolescent gambling prevention all-island jingle competition,held on February 27 at the organisation’s downtown Kingston offices. He noted that gambling can be a gateway tosubstance abuse, including alcohol and drugs, delinquency in school as well asother antisocial behaviours.

Mr. Terrelonge also appealed tostakeholders in the betting and gaming industry to discourage children fromgambling.

“Don’t allow the young students to come into yourinstitutions and gamble away their lunch money… . Don’tallow our children to gamble their education away,” he urged.

He lauded RISE Life ManagementServices and its partners for staging the jinglecompetition, which seeks to create awareness about the dangers ofindulging in underage gambling.

The entity’s Executive Director, Sonita Abrahams Burrows, said thatsince 2017, 4,000 youth have been sensitisedabout the consequences of underage gambling.

“This year, we have increased our target to some 16,000 studentsacross Jamaica,” she noted.

Grade-five student of Holy Family Primary School in Kingston, Malique Brown copped first place for his jingle, walking away with acash prize of $50,000.

The duo of Jahiem Jackson and Ackeem Johnson fromGaynstead High School in Kingston received the second-place cash prize of$30,000, while grade-nine student of Ferncourt High School in St. Ann, VernandoBailey, received the third-place prize of $20,000. The jingles will beprofessionally produced for airplay.

Some $176,000 in cash prizes was awarded to shortlistedparticipants, as well as trophies and medals. The competition was open to school-basedyouth at the primary and secondary levels, who were asked to make submissionsunder the theme ‘Underage Gambling Will Lead to Disaster; Focus on Educationand Be Your Own Master’.

The annual initiative seeks to eliminate underage gambling bycreating greater awareness about the consequences among stakeholders. It isillegal for persons under the age of 18 to gamble.

RISE Life Management Services operates the only gambling-prevention,treatment research and responsible gaming programme in the Caribbean.

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Header: State Minister in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Alando Terrelonge (second right), presents Holy Family Primary School student, Malique Brown, with the winner’s trophy in RISE Life Management Services’ adolescent gambling-prevention jingle competition. The awards ceremony was held on February 27 at the entity’s downtown Kingston offices. Sharing the moment are Vice President of Marketing, Communication and Sponsorship, Supreme Ventures Limited, Gail Abrahams (second left); and Executive Director of the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission (BGLC), Vitus Evans.

Insert: Grade-five student of Holy Family Primary School in Kingston, Malique Brown, performs his winning entry in the RISE Life Management Services’ adolescent gambling-prevention jingle competition, at the awards ceremony held on February 27 at the entity’s downtown Kingston offices. Malique reveived a cash prize of $50,000.

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