Red and White
These are not simply the colors of the land of the ‘Rising Sun,’ nor the Land of Santa Clause’s. In the Philippines, Red and White or Pula at Puti is one of the games at Casino Filipino drawing a number of casino patrons. Pula at Puti is played using three (3) ping-pong balls thrown in a transparent funnel by the player with the highest bet or his designated thrower.
- The balls fall through the funnel to settle onto three (3) compartments of a 100-square checkerboard below the funnel.
- The checkerboard consists of forty-nine (49) WHITE squares, forty-nine (49) RED squares and two (2) squares bearing a STAR symbol.
- The final color on which at least two (2) ping-pong balls come to rest shall be considered the winning color.
- If any of the three ping-pong balls rest on a star, bets on red & white lose.