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Evidence for Meurimuëng-rimuëng Peuët Ploh
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1490
Type Ethnography
Game Meurimuëng-rimuëng Peuët Ploh
Location Aceh
Date 1906-01-01 - 1906-12-31
Rules 9x9 intersecting lines, with diagonals darn in every 4x4 square formed.Forty pieces per player, palced on the board with the central space unoccupied. Players alternate turns moving one piece to an empty adjacent spot. They may capture an opponent's piece by hopping over it. Multiple hops in one turn are allowed, but not required. The first person to capture all of the opponent's pieces wins.
Content "The third game is called "meurimuëng-rimuëng peuët ploh" ("tiger game played with forty") as each player puts forty pieces on the board and the pusat (navel) A remains unoccupied. The players may move and take in every direction and so eventually win, though no one is obliged to take if another move appears more advantageous." Snouck-Hurgronje 1906: 204.
Confidence 100
Source Snouck Hurgronje, C. 1906. The Acehnese. trans. by A. W. S. O’Sullivan. Leiden: Brill.
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