Last Wednesday, our team celebrated Moon Cake Festival during our monthly team meeting! Truth be told, this was my first time to celebrate and play the dice game! I wasn’t lucky enough to win the grand prize, but I was able to win some of the lower prizes.

We had to fill our tummies first, before we played the dice game. Amber’s pancit and pichi-pichi is a staple for office celebrations. Haha.

Look at all of those moon cakes! 🙂

There was a short presentation on the history of the moon cake festival but I wasn’t really paying attention because I was busy eating. I will have to look it up in Wikipedia later.

We started the dice game and everyone flocked around the table in a circle (literally a rectangle).

A lot of dice were cast, and prizes were won. Rules of the moon cake dice game can be found here.  We had a simplified one though. Basically, you need to follow a certain pattern to win a prize. You have six dice that you need to throw inside a bowl (not one should jump out, lest you lose your turn). If you get one FOUR, you win the last prize (there are a lot of these). Two FOURs you win the next prize, three FOURS, four FOURS, 2 Three of a Kind, 4 of a kind, Straight 1 to 6 – you can actually make up your own rules if you want.

I didn’t get the top prize but I won these cute cups (I rolled two ONE FOURs and one TWO FOURS). Haha. It was a fun experience and I can’t wait for the next moon cake festival.

I hope the prizes next year are bigger and better! Apart from the prizes, the person who wins first place is believed to be lucky the whole year round. Now, who wouldn’t want that? 🙂