Jinbu

Jinbu is commonly known to as one of the greatest games ever played. Currently, Jinbu is not played anywhere outside of South Korea.

History of Jinbu
The history of Jinbu is short, yet full of excitement and emotion. The first game of Jinbu was played on Sunday May 4, 2008 in the small (there is only one road) town of Jinbu, South Korea. The stop in Jinbu was unplanned and made only because the traffic was bad on the highway heading to Jeonju. There were four people present at the introduction of Jinbu with three of them being credited with the creation of the game. Simon Hunt, co-founder of the rules, Gary Goodridge, co-founder of the rules, James Maas, who came up with the name "Jinbu" and David Patterson, who was just along for the ride.

Rules of Jinbu
Jinbu is a game that can be played with 3-6 players who each have 3 100 won coins. If a player was to play with any coin other than the 100 won coin, that player will be removed forcefully and never allowed to return, some exceptions can be made.

To start the game, each player thows his/her coins on the table in front of him while covering the coins with his/her hand so that no other player can see the coins. The coins, if landed properly, will be either "Heads" when the head is showing or "Tails" when the 100 is showing. If any coins were to land on the floor, chair or anywhere that is not the table, all coins must be picked up and thrown again.

The first player to act can say any number between 1 and 18, depending on how many coins are on the table, followed by "Heads" or "Tails". For example, if 6 people are playing then there will be 18 coins on the table. So the first person to act could say "8 Heads." The person to act next would then have to say "9 Heads", "9 Tails" or "Call". To call means that you do not think that there are "8 Heads" combined from all of the players at the table. If a person calls and there are as many or more than what the previous person said then the player that called is out. If there are less than the amount that the previous person said then the person who called is still in and the person that got called is out. Play continues until a player says "Call".

Scoring System
In the case of there being 6 players there will be a total of 5 points available to the winner. Please have a look at the following example from the 2008 Jinbu World Championship held in Suwon, South Korea.

Game 1
James 1
Iain 2
Ian 0
Simon 3
Scott 4
Gary 5

If look carully, you will see that Ian finished last and then was out. The game restarted with 5 players and James was the next person out. The game then restarted with 4 players and Iain was the next person out. It continues like this until there is only one person left and that person, in this case Gary, recieves the full 5 points.

Depending on how long you want to play for you can play 2,3,4,5,6, or 7 Rounds. The combine points will determine the winner. Please have a look at this expample.

Game 1
James 1
Iain 2
Ian 0
Simon 3
Scott 4
Gary 5

Game 2
James 0
Iain 3
Ian 1
Simon 2
Scott 4
Gary 5

Game 3
James 5
Iain 4
Ian 3
Simon 0
Scott 1
Gary 2

Overall Standings
James 6
Iain 9
Ian 7
Simon 5
Scott 9
Gary 12

Gary Goodridge would be with winner with Scott and Iain coming in tied for 2nd, Ian in 4th place, James in 5th place and Simon in last place.

Jinbu World Champions

2008 World Champion-- Ian Richardson

Upcoming Jinbu Tournaments
July 12th Daejon Open
July 18th Jaegermeister Open

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