Talking about new and old 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 what is possible a Mancala board, together with another game (at the top):
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João Neto
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Labels:
art and history,
chess,
traditional games
Most of the early posts about new games came from playtesting and discussions between João Pedro Neto and Bill Taylor. But even before Bill's passing on July 2021, the blog had gradually shifted its focus toward old and obscure two-player abstract board games. The blog will tend to avoid Chess variants, Mancala games, and Go Variants, as dedicated sites for those already exist.
Regarding the chronological tags: older games means 1800s-1940s (pre-WW2),
old games means 1950-1989 (pre-video games),
new games means 1990-2005 (at least for now).
4 comments:
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).
[answers from Google+)
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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