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Evidence for Lay Gwet Kyah
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1793
Type Ethnography
Location Burma
Date 1882-01-01 - 1882-12-31
Rules One player plays as three tigers (larger pieces), while the other plays as eleven or twelve smaller pieces. The tigers may hop over a smaller piece to capture it. The goal of the tigers is to capture the little pieces, the goal of the little pieces is to block the tigers from being able to move.
Content "There is a game very much like the English one known as Fox and Geese. There are three big tigers, and eleven or sometimes twelve little ones. It is called lay gwet kyah, and the object is for the big tigers to hunt down on a draft board and eat the little ones. If, however, the cubs can corner the big ones, and prevent them from taking a leap, the latter have to succumb-starve to death in fact," Yoe 1882: 83.
Confidence 100
Source Yoe, S. 1882. The Burman his Life and Notions. London: Macmillan and Co.
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