background Ludii Portal
Home of the Ludii General Game System

   

Home Games Forum Downloads References Concepts Contribute Tutorials Tournaments World Map Ludemes About


 
Sig (Rehamna) DLP Game   

Period Modern

Region Northern Africa

Category Reconstruction, Pending, Board, Race, Reach

Description

Sig is a game played in the Rehamna region of Morocco. It is a race game with captures, which appears to be related to Tab and similar games from North Africa and Southwest Asia.

Rules

4x12 board. Twelve pieces per player, arranged on the outer rows of the board. Six sticks, round on one side and flat on the other, used as dice. Throw of one single side and five of the other side = 1. A throw of 1 is required for each piece's first move. Players may capture their opponent's pieces. Players win after capturing opponent's pieces and moving their own pieces into the opponent's row.

Origin

Morocco

Ludeme Description

Sig (Rehamna).lud

Concepts

Browse all concepts for Sig (Rehamna) here.

Reference

Depaulis 2001: 61-62.

Evidence Map

1 pieces of evidence in total. Browse all evidence for Sig (Rehamna) here.

Click on any marker or highlighted region to view the evidence relating to it.
To view all regions, please select it from the category options below.

Evidence category:

Evidence coloured based on:

Map style:



Sources

Depaulis, T. 2001. 'Jeux de parcours du monde arabo-musulman (Afrique du Nord et Proche-Orient). Board Games Studies 4: 53-76.

Doutté, E. 1905. Merrâkech. Paris: Comité du Maroc.

Identifiers

DLP.Games.650


     Contact Us
     ludii.games@gmail.com
     cameron.browne@maastrichtuniversity.nl

lkjh Maastricht University Department of Advanced Computing Sciences (DACS), Paul-Henri Spaaklaan 1, 6229 EN Maastricht, Netherlands Funded by a €2m ERC Consolidator Grant (#771292) from the European Research Council