Zi Pai (Mandarin), is a card game played with a specially printed deck. The game originated in China, and is popular mainly in the southern part of Mainland China, especially Hunan Province. The game's general principles make it as interesting and attractive as possible. Despite being called "Zi Pai", it is also known as "Pao Fu Zi" or "Pao Hu Zhi" (跑胡子) due to the different dialects.
The special deck has two series of cards and 80 pieces in total, from number one to ten. One is numbers in Chinese Character and the other is in a more complicated characters. In addition all numbers 2, 7 and 10 are in red, and others are in black. Usually only three players there are in the game and the winner is the player who gets 18 credits first.