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Butterfly (or Gulugufe in the
The board is essentially two triangles joined together at a common vertex which makes the board look like a butterfly. Each triangle will be referred to as a wing in this article. Two lines cross the breadth of each triangle forming the second and third ranks, and another line that runs down the length of the triangle through the common vertex. There are a total of 19 intersection points for the pieces to be played upon.
Each player has nine pieces. One player plays black, and the other player plays white; however, any two colors or distinguishable objects will suffice.
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of Zambia
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, Malawi
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and Mozambique
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) is a two-player abstract strategy game
An abstract strategy game is a type of strategy game that has minimal or no narrative theme, an outcome determined only by player choice (with minimal or no randomness), and in which each player has perfect information about the game. For example ...
. It is related to draughts
Checkers (American English), also known as draughts (; Commonwealth English), is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve forward movements of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces. ...
and Alquerque
Alquerque (also known as al-qirkat from ) is a Abstract strategy game, strategy board game that is thought to have originated in the Middle East. It is considered to be the parent of draughts (US: checkers) and Fanorona and the diagonals of its ...
. It is a similar game to Lau kata kati from India
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which may suggest a historical connection between the two games.
Goal
The goal is to capture all of your opponent's pieces.Equipment
The board is essentially two triangles joined together at a common vertex which makes the board look like a butterfly. Each triangle will be referred to as a wing in this article. Two lines cross the breadth of each triangle forming the second and third ranks, and another line that runs down the length of the triangle through the common vertex. There are a total of 19 intersection points for the pieces to be played upon.
Each player has nine pieces. One player plays black, and the other player plays white; however, any two colors or distinguishable objects will suffice.
Related games
* Lau kata kati *Dash-guti
Dash-guti is a two-player abstract strategy board game from India, specifically from Central Provinces, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, United Provinces, Karwi Subdivision where it is called Kowwu Dunki which is the same name given to another si ...
* Egara-guti
* Permainan-Tabal
* Peralikatuma
*Draughts
Checkers (American English), also known as draughts (; Commonwealth English), is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve forward movements of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces. ...
References
External links
*https://web.archive.org/web/20050914083121/http://educ.queensu.ca/~fmc/april2003/Butterfly.html *http://www.isb.ac.th/ado/Content/Text/Content_4165/Math%20Games.pdf{{Dead link, date=June 2019 , bot=InternetArchiveBot , fix-attempted=yes Abstract strategy games Traditional board games