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Ancient Indian Boardgames: Digital Documentation

Tre Guti

Item

Title (dcterms:title)
Tre Guti
Description (dcterms:description)
This game was documented by Hem Chandra Das Gupta while he was working on some of his own geological field work. The informants as he stated were Pathan or Pashtun who lived in Mianwali district of Punjab. He explained in his essay that the games he documented from the region were played by everyone in the area including both children and elders, and the games were found at times etched on stone slabs in common spaces. Tre Guti is also one of these games. Tre Guti is a capturing game played on a small board as the image shows.
Rules (dcterms:instructionalMethod)
3x3 crossed lines, pieces move on the intersections and along the lines. Three pieces per player. In the placement phase, players alternate turns placing one of their pieces on an empty spot. When all of the pieces are placed, Players attempt to capture their opponent's pieces by hopping over them. The player who captures all of the opponent's pieces wins.
Creator (dcterms:creator)
Hem Chandra Das Gupta
Source (dcterms:source)
‘Few Types of Sedentary Games Prevalent In The Punjab’ by Hem Chandra Das Gupta in Sedentary Games of India eds. Nirbed Ray and Amitabha Ghosh
Contributor (dcterms:contributor)
Hem Chandra Das Gupta
Rights (dcterms:rights)
Creative Commons
Format (dcterms:format)
Medium (dcterms:medium)
Boardgames on text
Spatial Coverage (dcterms:spatial)
Punjab, (currently Pakistan)
Entered by (dcterms:accrualMethod)
Adrija Mukherjee
Notes (foaf:status)
This essay was written before the independence period and after the partition the region of Mianwali now falls under Pakistan.
Media
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