3 Kingdom Dragon Boat (SKY777): a six-boat race game and how to read its pair grid
Six Three Kingdoms dragon boats race and you bet on which pair comes in. How the odds grid, the Banker/Tie/Player bets, the chips and the result panel work.
Cartridge label
- Type
- Dragon boat race betting game
- Boats
- 6, numbered 1 to 6
- Pair odds shown
- From 3 (boats 1 and 4) to 1000 (boats 2 and 4)
- Side bets
- Banker x2, Tie x9, Player x2
- Currency label
- MPV
Controls
- BET chips
- 1, 5 and 10
- START
- Locks bets and starts the race
- CLEAR / CLEAR STOP
- Remove bets (CLEAR STOP appears to clear and halt repeat play)
- NEW GAME
- Resets the board after a race
3 Kingdom Dragon Boat is one of SKY777's arcade-style games. There are no reels. Six dragon boats crewed by cartoon soldiers race across a river, and you bet on the result. The theme is the Three Kingdoms: the banner at the top names boat 1 as 劉備 (Liu Bei) under the character 蜀 (Shu), with "NUMBER1" beside it.
The board
The lower half of the screen is the betting board. On the left are three round buttons with multipliers:
- 庄 BANKER, x2
- 和 TIE, x9
- 闲 PLAYER, x2
In the middle is a triangular grid. The top row is numbered 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and the left column 1 to 5, so each cell is a pair of boats. The odds in the capture:
| 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 80 | 175 | 3 | 250 | 10 |
| 2 | 5 | 60 | 1000 | 500 | |
| 3 | 4 | 20 | 30 | ||
| 4 | 8 | 100 | |||
| 5 | 125 |
Low numbers are the likely pairs (1 and 4 at 3), high numbers the unlikely ones (2 and 4 at 1000). The spread suggests the boats are not equal, so the grid is also a quick read on which boats are favoured.
On the right, a LAST 5R RESULTS panel lists recent races and the credit balance sits below it.
Placing a bet
Pick a chip (1, 5 or 10) under BET, tap a cell or a side button, then press START. TOTAL BET shows your stake. After the race, NEW GAME clears the board for the next one.
A race, read
In the capture, 1 credit sat on the 2-and-5 cell (odds 60). The race came in 1 and 4: the 1-4 cell turned red, the results panel logged "1 4" with the odds of 3 and "PLAYER", and TOTAL WINS stayed at 0.00. The balance went from 40.94 to 39.94.
The race itself shows the six boats side by side on blue water, each with a numbered dragon head, and a small three-window strip at the top with a STOP ALL REELS button.
Pacing
Races are short, and it is tempting to spread chips across the whole grid. The long odds cells pay rarely by design. Choose one or two bets a race and a fixed number of races.
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Troubleshooting and questions
What do the numbers on the 3 Kingdom Dragon Boat grid mean?
Each cell pairs one boat number from the left column with one from the top row, and shows the odds for that pair. It reads like a quinella: you are betting that those two boats finish first and second. The help page was not captured to confirm the exact rule.
What are FREE DRAGON and JACKPOT X3 X4 X5?
Two labels under the bet box. They look like bonus events that can light up during a race, but none was triggered in the captures, so what they pay is not known.
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