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Evidence for Meusuëb
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.708
Type Ethnography
Game Meusuëb
Location Aceh
Date 1909-01-01 - 1909-12-31
Content "Another game which is much played by women and children, resembles in principle the Javanese dakon and is played with peukula or gentuë seeds or pebbles. Wooden boards are sometimes used for it, but as a rule the required holes are simply made in the ground, the whole being called the uruë' or holes of the game.
The little round holes are called rumòh, the big ones A and B geudong or choh and the pips aneu'. The game itself is known in different places under the names chato, chuka', and jungka'. There are four different ways of playing it in Acèh with which I am acquainted, called respectively meusuëb, meuta', meuchoh, meuliëh. Let us here describe the meusuëb as a specimen.
The two players put 4 aneu's in each of six small holes. Then they commence to play, each in his turn taking the pips from any one hole selected at hap-hazard and distributing them among the other holes, dropping one in each they pass.
The direction followed is from left to right for the six holes next the player, and from right to left in the opposite ones. The player takes the contents of the hole he reaches with his last pip, and goes on playing. Should he reach an empty hole with his last pip he is dead.
Should it happen that when the player reaches the last hole which his store of pips enables him to gain, he finds 3 pips therein, he has suëb as it is called, that is to say he may add these 3 to the one he has still remaining and put these 4 as winnings in his geudong. He can then go on playing with the pips in the next hole (adòë suëb = the "younger brother" of the suëb); but if this next hole be empty he may retain the winnings but the turn passes to his opponent.
Thus they go on until there are too few pips left outside the two geudongs to play round with. Then each of the players takes one turn with one of the pips which remains over on his own side of the board. If he is compelled to put his pip in one of the holes on the opposite side, he loses it and when all the pips are thus lost the game is finished." Snouck-Hurgronje 1909: 200-201.
Confidence 100
Source Snouck Hurgronje, C. 1906. The Acehnese. trans. by A. W. S. O’Sullivan. Leiden: Brill.
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