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Evidence for Main Chongkak
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.676
Type Ethnography
Location Malaya
Date 1900-01-01 - 1900-12-31
Rules 2x8/2x9 board with a store on either end.
Play starts with same number of counters in each hole as number of holes in the row (6 counters if 6 holes in a row, etc). Store on either end. A player's store is the store to their left.
Play is clockwise; stores included when sowing. Played by women.
Play begins from any hole belonging to the player. Counters are sowed clockwise: if the final counter lands in an empty hole, in player's own row, they take the counters in the opposite hole and place them in the store. If play ends in the store, they can then take counters from any of their holes and sow again. if play ends in an empty hole in the opponent's row, play ends. if play ends in a hole with counters, those are collected and sowing continues.
A round ends when there are no counters left in a player's row. The opponent then takes all remaining counters and adds them to their store.
Next round begins with each player taking the counters from their store and placing the same number of counters in the holes as when the game began, starting from right to left. Surplus counters are placed in the store. unfilled holes are excluded from play in this round. Play continues as before.
Play continues with as many rounds as needed until one player does not have enough counters to fill a single hole.
Content "Main chongkak, again, is a game played with a board (papan chongkak) consisting of a boat-shaped block.
In the top of this block (where the boat’s deck would be) are sunk a double row of holes, the rows containing eight holes each, and two more holes are added, one at each end. Each of the eight holes (in both rows) is filled at starting with eight buah gorek (the buah gorek being the fruit of a common tree, also called kĕlichi in Malacca). There are usually two players who pick the buah gorek out of the holes in turn, and deposit them in the next hole according to certain fixed rules of numerical combination, a solitary buah gorek, wherever it is found, being put back and compelled to recommence its journey down the board.
A similar game is, I believe, known in many parts of the East, and was formerly much played even by Malay slaves, who used to make the double row of holes in the ground when no board was obtainable." Skeat 1900: 485-486
Confidence 100
Source Skeat, W. 1900. Malay Magic: Being an Introduction to the Folklore and Popular Religion of the Malay Peninsula. London: Macmillan and Co.
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