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Evidence for Mak Yep
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1697
Type Ethnography
Location Thailand
Date 1836-01-01 - 1836-12-31
Rules Board with sixteen squares. Seven pieces per player. One player must remove five counters so that at no point can the other player capture one of the pieces by hopping over it.
Content "Mak Yep is a game played with fourteen counters on sixteen squares- one of the players must take off five counters, so that he shall not leave one on the board in a situation to be taken-for if one is so situated that it can go over the head of another to an empty square the first player loses." Low 1839: 380.
Confidence 100
Source Low, J. 1839. 'On Siamese Literature.' Asiatic Researches 20(2): 338-392.
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