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Yahoudieh DLP Game   

Period Modern

Region Western Asia

Category Board, Race, Escape

Description

Yahoudieh is a children's race game played in Syria and Lebanon. It is a simplified version of Tawulat ul-Zahr games that are popular among adults.

Rules

2x12 board, with spaces as points, divided in two. Fifteen pieces per player, which start stacked, two on the players' first three points and three in the next three points. Two six-sided dice. Players unstack the pieces by moving pieces off of the stack, but remaining on the same point, according to the throws of the dice. The value of the throw indicates the number of the point which can be unstacked. For example, a throw of 1 and 4 allows the player to unstack the pieces on points 1 and 4. When all of a player's pieces are unstacked, they must be restacked, in the same way. When they have been successfully restacked, the player then bears off the pieces from this quadrant of the board. When bearing off, players move according to the number on each die by moving one piece the value on one die then another piece the value on the other die, or by moving one piece the value of one die and then the value of the other. The first player to bear off all their pieces wins.


Barakat 1974: 19-21.

Origin

Southwest Asia

Ludeme Description

Yahoudieh.lud

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Sources

Barakat, R. 1974. Tawula: Study in Arabic Folklore. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica.

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Identifiers

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