Dablot Prejjesne

Dablo, also called Dablot Prejjesne, is a family of two-player strategy board games of the Sámi people, first described by outsiders in the 1800s. It is played on a 6 by 7 grid board with diagonal lines through each square, with pieces placed on the gridline intersections rather than inside the squares. Each player controls 30 pieces: one King, one Prince or Son, and 28 soldiers or peasants. Pieces capture by jumping over an opponent's piece, similar to draughts, and multiple jumps with direction changes are allowed in a single turn, but only against a piece of equal or lower rank. The King and Landowner rank highest and can capture any piece; the Prince and Landowner's Son rank second and can capture equal or lower ranks but not the top rank; soldiers and peasants rank lowest and can only capture each other. The name itself reflects a documentation error: outside researchers mistook the Sámi word for board game as the game's own name, the same mistake that misnamed the tafl game Tablut.