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Evidence for Nao Gutiya Baithaneka
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1653
Type Ethnography
Location 25°36'39.65"N, 85° 8'44.34"E
Date 1935-01-01 - 1935-12-31
Rules The board is a five-pointed star. In the first phase, the player attempts to place all the pieces on the board. The player choses a point, then moves the piece two spaces in a straight line. The piece may move through a spot occupied by another piece, but must land on an empty space. Once all of the pieces are placed in this way, the player captures a piece on the board by hopping over with with another one of the pieces to an empty space on the opposite side of the piece to be captured. The goal is to capture all of the pieces except one.
Content "7. Nao-Gutiya-Baithaneka. The information of this game was also obtained from the
said bearer of the Archaeological Museum at Nalanda, It is a kind of ' solitaire ’ because only one man is required to play it.
The process of the game is that the player shall have nine l)all 0 ts
and that he shall have to place one ballet at the cross-point third
from the cross-point whence the move ha-sS begun and that this
vacant cross-point will he filled up by the second ballet moved
from a cross-point third from the said vacant one. In this way
all cross-points except one will be filled up. For exa,mple, if the
first ballet is moved from the cross-point c, thou the move will,
be as follows edb, hfe, ajh, dba, gfd, jhg, cbj, fdc, ihf." This is the solution for the game, not the rules. Das Gupta 1935: 415-416.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Social status Non-Elite
Genders Male
Source Das Gupta, C. 1935. "A Few Types of Sedentary Games from Bihar." Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1: 409-418.
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