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Gurgaldaj (Altan Gurgaldai)DLP Game   

Period Modern

Region Eastern Asia, Northern Asia

Category Board, Space, Line

Description

Gurgaldaj (Nightingale) is a game of alignment played on a triangular board in Mongolia.

Rules

Three concentric triangles, with lines connecting their midpoints and corners. Eight pieces per player. Players alternate turns placing a piece on an empty spot on the board. When all of the pieces are placed, players alternate turns moving a piece to an empty adjacent spot along the lines. When a player places three of their pieces in a row, they remove one of the opponent's pieces from the board. A piece that is in a three-in-a-row pattern cannot be removed. The player who removes all of the opponent's pieces wins.

Popova 1974: 26-32.

Origin

Mongolia

Ludeme Description

Gurgaldaj.lud

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Sources

Kabzińska-Stawarz, I. 1991. Games of Mongolian Shepherds. Warsaw: Polish Academy of Sciences.

Popova, A. 1974. "Analyse formelle et classification des jeux de calculs mongole." Études mongoles 5: 1974: 7-60.

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Identifiers

DLP.Games.869


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