Lau kata kati

Lau kata kati is a two-player abstract strategy board game from India, recorded in Lower Bengal and in the Karwi Subdivision of the former United Provinces, where it is locally called Kowwu Dunki. The game was documented by board-game historian H.J.R. Murray in his 1952 survey of board games. It is played on a board formed from two triangles joined at a shared vertex, with additional lines subdividing them to create nineteen intersection points in total. Each of the two players controls nine pieces, one side black and the other white, and all eighteen pieces are placed on the board at the start except for a single vacant point at the center. Players move one piece at a time along the marked lines, capturing an opponent's piece by leaping over it in the manner of draughts or Alquerque. A player wins by capturing every one of the opponent's pieces, though the game can also end in a stalemate when a side's remaining pieces are blocked from moving, or be settled by a final count of surviving pieces.