Period Modern

Region Northern America

Category Board, Space, Line

Description

Picaria is a game played by the people of Isleta Pueblo in New Mexico in the early twentieth century, but likely to be older. This version is played on a smaller board.

Rules

Played on a 3x3 board with diagonals in the squares.

These rules were taken from the Historical Information ruleset.

All Rulesets

Suggested rulesets
Zaslavsky 1 Suggested by C. Zaslavsky.
Zaslavsky 2 Alternate suggestion by C. Zaslavsky.

Incomplete rulesets
Historical Information Information from DLP evidence.

Origin

Southwest United States

Ludeme Description

Picaria.lud

Concepts

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Reference

Murray 1951: 42

Evidence Map

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Evidence category: All Artifact Art Text Ethnography

Evidence coloured based on: Age None

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Sources

Culin, S. 1907. Games of the North American Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Murray, H.J.R. 1951. A History of Board-Games Other Than Chess. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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Identifiers

DLP.Games.392

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