Chetno i likho

A simple game of chance, of Old Europan provenance (see par-impar), where the players had to guess if the hidden objects were even (czetno or cetno or cet or čet) or odd (licho, see likho, or liszka) in number, with likho meaning also bad luck or devil. The counted objects could also be white or black pawns or lines drawn in ashes, and the game had mystical overtones of invoking the Sudice - Slavic Fates (cf. Wyrd).