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Evidence for Len Saké
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1700
Type Ethnography
Game Len Saké
Location Thailand
Date 1836-01-01 - 1836-12-31
Rules 2x12 board, divided in half as in Backgammon. Played with dice. Pieces enter the board according to the throws of the dice into the left hand side of the board. All pieces must be entered onto the board before they may begin moving. Movement occurs in an anti-clockwise direction. Once they can move, an opponent's piece which is alone on a point can be taken when one of the player's pieces lands on that point. The first player to have a piece captured loses.
Content "Len saké is played with counters like Backgammon-the moves being regulated by dice. The box has the same number of marks as the European one, and indeed the game bers such a close resemblance to our Backgammon, that it may be perhaps supposed to have been taught to them by European traders. The men are not placed in the box at the outset, but are kept in a heap in the chequers of the players, which first are to the left hand of each. The pieces are filled into the respective chequers according to the casts of the dice-and they range to the right when the whole numbers have been filled in. After this they may take up any uncovered counter of the adversary which generally terminates the game. The chief aim is to prevent a piece being uncovered." Low 1839: 380-381.
Confidence 100
Source Low, J. 1839. 'On Siamese Literature.' Asiatic Researches 20(2): 338-392.
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