Kuo Li-cheng, a scholar of folk culture, explains that there was no limit to the number of people who could play "Moving Up," that players moved forward or back according to the roll of the dice, and that everyone started as an illiterate, then proceeded to enter school, take examinations, become an official, and then rise to enter the cabinet and become the premier.
民俗學家郭立誠解釋，升官圖的遊戲人數不限，用骰子擲進退，人人自白丁（不識字者）開始，按次序求學、考試、升官、入閣拜相。