Inventing and talking about new or obscure abstract games
From an oriental art and culture exposition at Lisbon (it was a surprise visit, so I only had the camera from my cell phone)
There was a Xiang Qi:
And a strange board that I don't recognize (the label was wrong, it said that was the Makruk which cannot be right):
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João Neto
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art and history,
old games
Most of the initial posts about new games came from playtesting and discussions between João Pedro Neto and Bill Taylor. But even before Bill's death on July 2021, the blog had slowly shifted to the presentation of old and obscure board games. The blog will tend to avoid Chess variants and Mancala games, since there already exist specific sites for those.
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Does anybody knows what is the 3rd board? It seems like a Mancala, but there are too few pieces there (perhaps the game set is incomplete).
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Víktor Bautista i Roca:
Palanguzhi (= many holes). In fact, it's more a box of games. On the cover you have three games, at least one more if you flip the cover, and a mancala game inside. It's a quite typical game box from southern India.
Damian Walker:
Something similar is illustrated in quite a few of R. C. Bell's books on board games. The grid on the lid is for tablan. On the flip side are a pentagram, an extended alquerque board and an hourglass-shaped boar, for the games of lam turki, lau kati kata and cows & leopards (says his book Games to Play, pp.90-91).
I thought the third game was Mancala. Is it different? Seems to certainly come from the same general idea and theory.
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