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Dhola DLP Game   

Period Modern

Region Southern Asia

Category Reconstruction, Pending, Board, Race, Reach

Description

Dhola is a race game played in the Maldives. Its rules are incompletely documented, but the board and components resemble other race games in southern Asia.

Rules

Four 3x8 rectangles, arranged in a cross. The outermost square in the central row of each arm is marked, as is the fourth square from the top in all three rows of each arm. Four pieces per player. Five cowry shells, used as dice. Played with up to four players.

Origin

Maldives

Ludeme Description

Dhola.lud

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Reference

Murray 1951: 136.

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Sources

Culin, S. 1898. Chess and Playing-Cards. Washington: Government Printing Office.

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

Identifiers

DLP.Games.846


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