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Main Tapak Empat DLP Game   

Period Modern

Region Southeastern Asia

Category Board, Hunt

Description

Main Tapak Empat is a hunt game played by the Minangkabau people of Malaysia. In it, One player plays as two tigers who try to capture 24 goats.

Rules

5x5 intersecting lines, with diagonals in each 3x3 quadrant. One player plays with two tigers, which begin on the central spot. The other player plays as 24 goats. The goats play first, and may place a piece on any empty spot. The tigers move to an empty spot any distance along the lines on the board, or may hop over an adjacent goat to capture it, provided there is an empty spot immediately on the other side of the goat. Once all of the goats are placed, they may move along the lines to an empty adjacent spot. If the tigers cannot move, the goats win. The tigers win by capturing all the goats.

Dussek 1938: 71.

Origin

Malaysia

Ludeme Description

Main Tapak Empat.lud

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Reference

Murray 1951: 109.

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Sources

Dussek, O. 1919. " Notes on Malay Indoor Games." Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 80: 68-71.

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

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Identifiers

DLP.Games.742


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