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Evidence for Sher Bakar
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1449
Type Ethnography
Location 32°34'58.69"N, 71°32'16.52"E
Date 1922-10-01 - 1922-10-31
Rules 5x5 board, played on intersections, with diagonals for each quadrant of the board. One player plays with two tiger pieces, placed on the midpoints of two opposite sides. The other player plays with nineteen goats, divided into three stacks of five and one stack of four, placed in the center of each quadrant. The goats move first. Goats may move one at a time to any adjacent vacant spot. More than one goat can be placed on the goats' starting spots, but not elsewhere. The tiger moves in the same manner, but also may capture a piece by hopping over it. Multiple captures can be made on the same turn with subsequent hops, but only the top goat in a stack is captured when a tiger leaps over it. The goal of the goats is to surround the tigers so they cannot move; when one tiger is blocked the other must be blocked on the next turn. The goal of the tigers is to capture all the goats.
Content "The game of sher-bakar (=tiger and goats) is a tiger-play. Of the two persons necessary for this game, one is in possession of two pieces representing the tigers and the other of nineteen pieces representing the goats. The latter pieces are placed within the circles marked in figure 4, 15 being equally divided among 3 circles while four are located in the fourth. The two tigers are located at the cross-points marked T. As in all types of tiger-play, the goats and the tigers may usually be moved from one cross-point to that lying next to it, except in the case where a tiger may jump over a cross-point with a goat on it and capture the goat, the cross-point next to the goat and in the same line being vacant. Not more than one goat may be located on a cross-point, but more than one goat may be kept within the circles indicated in the diagram. When the tiger-piece jumps over two or more goats within a circle and occupied the next vacant cross-point in the same line, not more than one goat may be captured. One of the players tried to capture all the goat-pieces, and the other to checkmate the tiger-pieces one of which has to be checkmated immediately after the checkmating of the other." Das-Gupta 1923a: 145-146.
Confidence 100
Ages All
Genders All
Source Gupta, H. 1926a. 'A Few Types of Sedentary Games Prevalent in the Punjab." Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 22(4): 143–148.
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