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Evidence for Bagh Batti
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1510
Type Ethnography
Location Garhwal
Date 1926-10-01 - 1926-10-31
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 twenty goats, divided into four stacks of five, 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 "Bagh-Batti.
The game of bagh-batti (bagh= tiger and batti=guti=: piece)
is a type of tiger-play and two persons, one of whom is the possessor of two pieces representing two tigers and the other of
twenty pieces or battis, are necessary for playing it. The
twenty pieces are to be placed within the four circles and the
two baghs at the points T as shown in the diagram. The rules
of the game are very similar to those already described by me
in connection with the game known as sher-bakar with this
difference that, in the game of sher-bakar, the number of pieces
is not twenty but nineteen of which fifteen are equally distributed among 3 circles and only four are placed in the fourth.
In all other respects the rules of the two games are the same.
Thus, if the tiger jumps over a circle with more battis than one
and occupies the immediately next vacant cross-point in the-
same line,: only one batti may be captured and for the possessor of the battis to win the game he has to checkmate the two
tigers one immediately after the other." Da-Gupta 1927: 267-298.
Confidence 100
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