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Evidence for Tablan
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1505
Type Ethnography
Location 12°17'44.92"N, 76°38'21.77"E
Date 1979-01-01 - 1979-12-31
Rules 4x12 board. Twelve pieces per player. Pieces begin in the outer rows of the board. Four sticks serve as dice, painted on one side and blank on the other. The throws are as follows: one black side up = 2; two blank sides up = 0; three bank sides up = 0; four blank sides up = 8; four painted sides up = 12. Throws of 2, 8, and 12 give the player another throw. Players must use each throw to move a piece. They may only subdivide a throw in half to move two pieces, otherwise they must use one full throw to move a piece. The first move for each piece must be a throw of 2. This can be divided into two throws of 1 to move two pieces. Play moves from left to right in the player's home row, from right to left in the second row, left to right in the third row, and right to left in the opponent's home row. When a piece enters the opponent's home row, it can no longer move. When a player's piece lands on a space occupied by an opponent's piece, the opponent's piece is captured. A player may not land on the same space as another of the player's pieces. Entering the opponent's home row must be done consecutively; I.e., the first piece which enters it must land on the rightmost space, the second piece on the next space to the left of the previous, and so on. The player which fills up the most of the opponent's home row wins.
Content Detailed description of Tablan rules in Bell 1979: 87-89. Said to still have been played in some of the villages in Mysore in south-west India.
Confidence 100
Source Bell, R.C. 1979. Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations. New York: Dover.
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