Remarks on the database

I've tried to associate each version of the game with a list of names. It must be understood that in some regions (especially in China), there were a lot of variations in these lists.

References

I have not included references as I am still trying to find a "usable" way to present them.
I have, for now, a litte less than 5000 references including books, papers, newspapers, websites, blogs, forums etc...
For China alone, more than 2500 references distributed as follows :

China
Anhui	27	Henan	4	Shaanxi	2
Chongqing	8	Hong Kong	77	Shandong	54
Fujian	446	Hubei	26	Shanghai	193
Gansu	9	Hunan	16	Shanxi	1
Guangdong	293	Inner Mongolia	17	Sichuan	43
Guangxi	73	Jiangsu	20	Taiwan	83
Guizhou	27	Jiangxi	119	Xinjiang	1
Hainan	21	Jilin	83	Yunnan	71
Hebei	134	Liaoning	127
Heilongjiang	143	Macao	17	General	107
World
Argentina	9	Honduras	6	Puerto Rico	10
Australia	58	India	5	Singapore	55
Belize	16	Indochina	24	South Africa	109
British Guiana	17	Indonesia	73	Spain	1
Brunei	1	Italy	1	Suriname	24
Burma	66	Jamaica	42	Thailand	97
Cambodge	82	Japan	104	Trinidad	95
Canada	16	Korea	18	UK	3
Cayman Islands	1	La Reunion	1	Uruguay	4
Columbia	2	Laos	11	US	87
Costa Rica	5	Madagascar	3	Venezuela	56
Cuba	120	Malaysia	139	Vietnam	146
Dominican Republic	4	Mauritius	8	Virgin Islands	1
France	7	Mexico	10
Grenada	1	Mongolia	1
Guatemala	11	Nicaragua	18
Guyane	1	Panama	35
Haiti	23	Papua New Guinea	1
Hawaii	103	Peru	32
Holland	1	Philippines	105

N.B.:Some "regions" are not countries.
References to Hua-Hui or one of its variants have been written in : Chinese, French, English, Afrikaans, Catalan, Cebuano, Dutch, Filipino, German, Hawaiian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Burmese, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Vietnamese...

Remarks on booklets

The printed booklets are quite difficult to identify, most of the times these is no date or place of publishing. And often, the first and last pages are missing.
The hand-written booklets, which most of the times are copies of printed books, are even more difficult to identify as, when there is a date, it's not always clear if it is the date of the original or the date of the copy.

Remarks on the world map

As I had do merge many sources of data for borders, I had to make tradeoffs. Don't take these borders as reference because they are approximative.
The Chinese provinces borders are the actual ones, many of these have changed in the 1950's.
For some countries, because I had no proof that the game had spread to the whole country, I tried to show only the places or regions where the game or one of its variants was played.

Places were Hua-Hui or one of its variant were played

Name	Location
36 betes	France	In the early 1900's, local newspapers report that the 36 betes version of the game was played by Indochinese (Cambodge, Laos, Vietnam) people living in France.
Chee-fa	Great-Britain	Some reports that Chinese people living in Great-Britain played Chee-fa. It seems the game was never played by English people.
Tse-fa	Holland	A police report says that Chinese Triads in Amsterdam are playing tse-fa.
Jueteng	Italy	A report about filipino migrant workers in Rome says filipino migrant workers were playing 'jueting'.

Games eventually related to Hua-Hui

Borlette/Tchala Haiti

The Borlette or Tchala is a gambling game based on dreams. The 'official' book is "Le bréviaire des joueurs de loterie" which looks like the Hua-Hui's Dreams dictionary but its true origin is a French book published in 1850 : "La prescience, ou grande interprétation des songes, des rêves et des visions"

Quinelas Argentina, Uruguay

The Quiniela is very popular in Argentina, Uruguay and Dominican Republic, it's a 2D lottery : the numbers 00 to 99 are associated with animals and dreams, there are associations with jobs, recipes, feelings, virtues, football teams (!) etc...
The origin of these lists is not known but the quinielas appeared in the early 1900's, so, maybe they were derived from the 2D version of the Cuban Charada which is at least 10 years older.

Jogo do Bicho Brazil

About the origin of the Jogo do Bicho we know this :
It appeared in 1893 in Rio de Janeiro, it was a game proposed by the Zoo owned by the Baron Drumond, visitors had to guess the name of one of a list of 25 animals.
It is reputed to be a variant of the "jogo das flores" invented by a Manuel Ismael Zevada of Mexican origins, who became an associate of Baron Drumond.
Like Hua-Hui, it was played in the rural zones, by hanging one of the 25 names to a pole, then collecting bets, and finally revealing the winning name.
Like Hua-Hui, the animals were associated to dreams.
We can assume that Michael Zevada knew about Charada China because it was played in almost all countries between Mexico and Brazil, and maybe "jogo das flores" is a translation of 花会.
So.... maybe Jogo do Bicho is a variant of Hua.Hui.