2 players

Damat

Game family: diagonal
Origin: Malaysia

Overview

Damat is a game with leaping captures played at Malacca, Malaysia by Portuguese people.

Source rules (English)

The game Damat is played by two players on a 12x12 rectangle board with square tiling. Regions: RegionP1: the bottom sites of the board for P1 RegionP2: the top sites of the board for P2 All players play with Counters and DoubleCounters. Players take turns moving. Setup: Place a Counter for player one at the difference between the bottom sites of the board expanded by 4 steps and all sites within [1,3,5,7,9,11,12,14,16,18,20,22,25,27,29,31,33,35,36,38,40,42,44,46,49,51,53,55,57,59,60,62,64,66,68,70,73,75,77,79,81,83,84,86,88,90,92,94,97,99,101,103,105,107,108,110,112,114,116,118,121,123,125,127,129,131,132,134,136,138,140,142]. Place a Counter for player two at the difference between the top sites of the board expanded by 4 steps and all sites within [1,3,5,7,9,11,12,14,16,18,20,22,25,27,29,31,33,35,36,38,40,42,44,46,49,51,53,55,57,59,60,62,64,66,68,70,73,75,77,79,81,83,84,86,88,90,92,94,97,99,101,103,105,107,108,110,112,114,116,118,121,123,125,127,129,131,132,134,136,138,140,142].. Rules: Move one of your pieces or move one of your pieces or move one of your pieces or move one of your pieces. Aim: If the next player cannot move, the moving player wins.