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Lay Gwet Kyah DLP Game   

Period Modern

Region Eastern Asia, Southeastern Asia, Southern Asia

Category Reconstruction, Done, Board, Hunt

Description

Lay Gwet Kyah is a hunt game played in Myanmar during the nineteenth century.

Rules

Played on a board with 4x4 squares. Unsure whether played on the lines or the spaces. One player plays as three tigers (larger pieces), while the other plays as eleven or twelve smaller pieces. The tigers may hop over a smaller piece to capture it. The goal of the tigers is to capture the little pieces, the goal of the little pieces is to block the tigers from being able to move.

These rules were taken from the Historical Information ruleset.

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Reconstructed rulesets
Lay Gwet Kyah (Ludii 1) Reconstructed with Ludii
Lay Gwet Kyah (Ludii 2) Reconstructed with Ludii
Lay Gwet Kyah (Ludii 3) Reconstructed with Ludii
Lay Gwet Kyah (Ludii 4) Reconstructed with Ludii

Incomplete rulesets
Historical Information From DLP evidence.

Origin

Southeast Asia

Ludeme Description

Lay Gwet Kyah.lud

Concepts

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Sources

Yoe, S. 1882. The Burman his Life and Notions. London: Macmillan and Co.

Identifiers

DLP.Games.930


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