Hua Hui and Gambling Games in Brunei

[Note: Brunei Times published my article on gambling in Brunei last Sunday.]In the 1950s, Bruneians woke up to a new game of chance. This new game was different. It required a certain amount of skill and knowledge. It also appealed to the Malay sense of puzzle solving – solving a ‘teka-teki’ or word puzzle. But it was still a gambling game and it went by the name of ‘Hua Hui’.Not many young