Learning and Science. Literature. Games and Pastimes. Religion. Index Volume 2 pdf
Learning and Science. Literature. Games and Pastimes. Religion. Index Volume 2 pdf

Learning and Science. Literature. Games and Pastimes. Religion. Index Volume 2. Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje

Learning and Science. Literature. Games and Pastimes. Religion. Index Volume 2
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Author: Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje
Page Count: 156 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781236037381
Download Link: Learning and Science. Literature. Games and Pastimes. Religion. Index Volume 2
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ... six small holes. Then they commence to play, each in his turn taking the pips from any one hole selected at hap-hazard and distributing them among the other holes, dropping one in each they pass. The direction followed is from left to right for the six holes next the player, and from right to left in the opposite ones. The player takes the contents of the hole he reaches with his last pip, and goes on playing. Should he reach an empty hole with his last pip he is dead. Should it happen that when the player reaches the last hole which his store of pips enables him to gain, he finds 3 pips therein, he has sueb as it is called, that is to say he may add these 3 to the one he has still remaining and put these 4 as winnings in his geudong. He can then go on playing with the pips in the next hole (adbe sueb = the "younger brother" of the sueb); but if this next hole be empty he may retain the winnings but the turn passes to his opponent. Thus they go on until there are too few pips left outside the two geudongs to play round with. Then each of the players takes one turn with one of the pips which remains over on his own side of the board. If he is compelled to put his pip in one of the holes on the opposite side, he loses it and when all the pips are thus lost the game is finished. Pachih is a favourite game among the men in Acheh. They are well Pachih. aware that it has been introduced by Klings and other natives of Hindustan. It has been adopted with but slight modifications and even such as there are may also possibly be of foreign origin, for the description of pachisi1) (= pachih) to be found in G. A. Herklots Qanoon-e-islam, Appx. pp. LVIII--LIX and Plate VII, Fig. 2, differs from the system of play adopted by the Klings now in Acheh, so that it ...

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