Edris A Jin

Edris a jin is a cross and circle board game played by the Druze of Syria and Lebanon, documented by Stewart Culin for the United States National Museum in 1898. It has been compared to Pachisi. The name means game of the Jinn and relates to the prophet Enoch, known as Idris in Islamic tradition. The board features a parti-colored diagram with four arms, each having four rows of eight squares, forming an octagonal shape around a central sixteen-square area called the serai. Players use cowrie shells as pieces and throw additional cowries to determine movement.