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The correct term is pellets, with tilde. Plural of pellet. Mean game of malabar invented in China. It consists of two halves hollow and joined by the convex part, which are made to turn through a rope that binds to two sticks. It is also called the devil or devil of two sticks. Its original name was Kouen-gene, which means "to make whistling the hollow trunk of bamboo"-