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Evidence for Tayam Sonalu
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1487
Type Ethnography
Location Sri Lanka
Date 1909-01-01 - 1909-12-31
Rules Four 3x8 rectangles, arranged in a cross shape around large central square. Four players. Four pieces per player, which begin in the central square. Two rectangular four-sided die, each marked as follows: 0, 1, 2, 4. When the throw is 0 and 1, the throw is called Tayam, when it is 0 and 4 it is called Sonal. Pieces enter the board in the from the central square onto the central row of their arm of the board, proceed down the central row, and then in an anti-clockwise direction around the circumference of the board, and back up the central row of their arm of the board, having to enter the central square with an exact throw. The first counter of each player must be entered with a throw of Tayam. After this, pieces may be entered with a throw of 1, 5, or Sonal, each of which enter the piece on the first square of the central row of their arm. These three throws also grant the player another throw. The throws made after entering a piece are made at once, and then the pieces moved afterward, the undivided value of each throw being used to move a piece. When a piece lands on a space occupied by an opponent's piece, the opponent's piece is sent back to start. If the opponent has two pieces on such a space, they both are sent back to start, but both may reenter the board with a single throw of 1, 5, or Sonal. Pieces cannot move past the pieces of the opposing team, but can move past pieces of their own team. The first team to place all of their pieces in the central square wins.
Content Detailed description of the rules of Tayam Sonalu in Parker 1909: 617-618.
Confidence 100
Spaces Inside
Source Parker, H. 1909. Ancient Ceylon. New Delhi: Asian Educational Services.
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