Cockfighting did not originate in Philippines so I don't think this is in the list.
Despite the fact that cockfighting is so popular in our country, as far as I know it did not originate here. I guess we can include the gamble of kids or sometimes adults with the spiders they caught on mountainsides since I did not heard it in other countries. Another thing is the Kara, or the other gambling games that includes coins in the streets of the Philippines.
it may not originated in the philipines but philipines is still an asian country and they love to gamble using cocks/chicken . the game also popular on other asian country as well as spider games like you mention or shall i say insect fights in general because there were also other insects that being used to gamble . card games also is verry popular on the asia . there are many kind of games inside the card game category but any of these are being played every single day on our place .
Well most of the old people here in Philippines loves cockfighting. The only thing they care about is their chicken, thinking about it all day. There's a lot of street gambling games here in our country, go to peryahan and you'll see a lot of gambling games. I used to play that spider game, buying some strong at devouring other spiders on the stick.
Cockfighting was also very popular here at my place, a country near the Philippines, before gambling was banned. At that time, every cockfight's event would be so crowded. But frankly I do not know the origin of this game. Clearly, this game has been here for a long time.
