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Mak Yep DLP Game   

Period Modern

Region Southeastern Asia

Category Reconstruction, Pending, Board, War

Description

Mak Yep is a game that was played in nineteenth century Thailand. The rules are incompletely documented, but a player wins by removing five pieces from the board without the other player being able to hop over one of the player's pieces.

Rules

Board with sixteen squares. Seven pieces per player. One player must remove five counters so that at no point can the other player capture one of the pieces by hopping over it.

Origin

Thailand

Ludeme Description

Mak Yep.lud

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Reference

Murray 1951: 71.

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Sources

Low, J. 1839. 'On Siamese Literature.' Asiatic Researches 20(2): 338-392.

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

Identifiers

DLP.Games.171


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