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Evidence for Mysore Tiger Game
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1824
Type Rules text
Location 12°17'44.92"N, 76°38'21.77"E
Date 1794-01-01 - 1868-12-31
Rules A triangle, with a point in the center and lines connecting it to the apex and the midpoints of the two sides which meet at the apex. One person players as the tiger, which begins on the apex. The other person plays as three people. Players alternate turns, with the person playing as the people first placing a person on the board, and then the tiger moving to an empty adjacent spot along the lines of the board. When all of the people have been placed, the people move on the board in the same fashion. The tiger may capture one of the people by jumping over it to an empty adjacent spot immediately on the opposite side of one of the peeople along the lines of the board. The tiger wins when it captures one person, the people win when they can block the tiger from being able to move.
Content "The game is one player has a tiger and the other many men with sword (hunters). The tiger is usually placed on the apex of the triangle and the second player enters his men, once at a time in alternative moves with the moves of the tiger. All the pieces move in the same way, one step along the marked line, but the men cannot be moved until all are entered. The tiger, which alone can capture, takes men by the short leap. The tiger wins if he eats so many men that they cannot confine him, the men if they succeed in reducing the tiger to immobility." Vasantha 2006: 31, with a diagram of this one in fig. 15.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Social status Elite, Royalty
Genders Male
Source Vasantha, R. 2006. Maharaja's Games and Puzzles. Kelkheim: Foerderkreis Schach-Geschichtsforschung e. V.
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