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Evidence for Yoté

1 pieces of evidence found.

Id DLP.Evidence.1524
Type Ethnography
Game Yoté
Location Senegal
Date 1955-01-01 - 1955-12-31
Rules 5x5 board. Twelve pieces per player. Players alternate turns placing a piece on the board or . Players may begin to moving a piece already on the board. Pieces move one space in any orthogonal direction. A player may capture an opponent's piece by hopping over it to an empty space on the other side of it. When a capture is made in this fashion, the player chooses another piece belonging to the opponent to capture in addition. The player who captures all of the opponent's pieces wins.
Content "Le yoté est un des jeux d'argent les plus répandus du Sénégal, si répandu qu'il est tout à fait francisé, qu'il donne la verbe "yoter."...Vingt-cinq cases, 12 cailloux, 12 bâtonnets, on se couche en plaçant un seul bâtonnet ou un seul caillou à la fois; on peut conserver des pions en réserve, (souvent on en conserve deux); on prend, comme aux dames ("dames de Saint Louis"), en sautant, mais adns tous les sens, orthogonalement; on prend en plus un pion au choix dans le jeu de l'adversaire." Béart 1955: 462-463.
Confidence 100
Source Béart, C. 1955. Jeux et jouets de l'ouest africain. Tome II. Dakar: IFAN.

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