Period Modern

Region Central Asia, Southern Asia, Western Asia, Eastern Europe

Category Reconstruction, Done, Board, Space, Line

Description

Diris is an alignment game played in Persia during the seventeenth century.

Rules

Three consecutive squares, with lines connecting the corners and the midpoints of the sides of the squares.

These rules were taken from the Historical Information ruleset.

All Rulesets

Reconstructed rulesets
Diris (Ludii 1) Reconstructed with Ludii
Diris (Ludii 2) Reconstructed with Ludii
Diris (Ludii 3) Reconstructed with Ludii
Diris (Ludii 4) Reconstructed with Ludii
Diris (Ludii 5) Reconstructed with Ludii
Diris (Ludii 6) Reconstructed with Ludii
Diris (Ludii 7) Reconstructed with Ludii
Diris (Ludii 8) Reconstructed with Ludii
Diris (Ludii 9) Reconstructed with Ludii
Diris (Ludii 10) Reconstructed with Ludii

Incomplete rulesets
Historical Information Rules from DLP evidence.

Origin

Persia

Ludeme Description

Diris.lud

Concepts

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Reference

Murray 1951: 47.

Evidence Map

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Evidence coloured based on: Age None

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Sources

Hyde, T. 1694. De Ludis Orientalibus Libri Duo: Historia Nerdiludii, hoc est Dicere, Trunculorum, cum quibuidam aliis Arabum, Persarum, Indorum, Chinensium, & aliarum Gentium Ludis tam Politicis quam Bellicis, plerumque Europae inauditis, multo minus visis: additis omnium Nominibus in dictarum Gentium Linguis. Ubi etiam Classicorum Graecorum & Latinorum loca quaedam melius quam hactenus factum est explicantur. Oxford: E Theatro Sheldoniano.

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

Identifiers

DLP.Games.1342

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