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Evidence for Sigue
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1484
Type Ethnography
Location Caillie
Date 1826-04-09 - 1826-05-08
Rules 3x24 board. Two, four, or six players, playing on two teams. Twenty-four sticks for each team, place one each in every hole of a team's row. The inner row is left empty. Six sticks, black on one side, white on the other, which serve as dice. One team chooses to be black, the other chooses to be white. When all of the same color, or all but one are of the same color, a player moves one piece from their row into the central row, or the throw counts as 1. Otherwise, the throw is scored based on the number of sticks with the team's color face up. The first throw is of five sticks, and subsequent throws are of all six, and players continue to throw until they do not throw a 1. When a team's stick arrives in the same spot as the opposing team's stick, the opposing team's stick is sent back to the outer row. Pieces cannot move into the opposing team's row until all of the pieces in the central row are occupied. The team that occupies the opponent's entire row first wins.
Content "To amuse themselves, and make the days seem less tedious during the Ramadan, the Moors have a game called sigue. It consists of six flat pieces of wood, rounded at the ends in an oval form, white on one side, and black on the other. The game is played by two, four, or six persons, but always divided into two parties. Three rows of holes are made in the ssand, twenty-four in each; the outside rows are taken by the different parties, who cover each of the holes with a straw, taking care that the straws of the two parties shall be of different colors, so as to be easily distinguished; the middle row of holes is left open. One of the players takes five bits of wood in his hand, shakes them and drops them on the ground; if all the pieces of wood are of the same colour, or all but one, this is called making the sigue, and counts for one: the played continues with six pieces until he fails to make the sigue; then another plays, and so on. Every time a player makes the sigue he puts a straw into one of the holes of the middle row, and moves it forward as many places as he has thrown pieces of wood of the colour adopted by his party. When a player has reached the last hole in the middle row, he leaves his straw there; if his adversary arrives at it also, the first straw is thrown out, and the player begins again as before. When all the holes in the middle row are taken, the player begins upon his adversary's, and they go on with the game, taking straws out of all the holes which they win from him; when either party has lost all its holes the game is over." Caillié 1830: 127-128.
Confidence 100
Source Caillié, R. 1830. Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo; and across the Great Desert, to Morocco, Performed in the Years 1824-1828. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley.
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