380 ON SIAMESE LITERATURE. 



The tigers are placed at the four corners — an ox is placed on one 

 square, and the nearest tiger moves first. The tigers take by leaping over 

 the heads of the oxen to the open square behind them and not diagonally. 



The tigers are taken and put off the board when hemmed in so that 

 they cannot move, or they are taken then by the oxen moving {only then) 

 diagonally. If only two tigers are left on the board the oxen are victors. 

 There is another game called the sleeping tigers and ten oxen — played on 

 a fifteen checqued board. The tigers wait until they can take by leaping 

 over the heads of the oxen one at a time to a blank square — or by getting 

 betwixt three or two, which they take. 



Len choa is a game played with six counters placed within and on the 

 lines of a triangle, or as may be agreed on the point, consists in hemming 

 in the adversary's pieces so that he cannot move. 



Mak yep is a game pla3^ed with fourteen counters on sixteen squares — 

 one of the players must take off five counters, so that lie shall not leave one 

 on the board in a situation to be taken— for if one is so situated that it can 

 go over the head of another to an empty square the first player loses. 



Mak khom is a trough with seven cups on each side. The players 

 have each forty-nine counters distributed equally in the cups, i. e. seven 

 each. Each takes out the contents of his first cup, and counts them out 

 to the right hand to the last number, — setting aside the counter which 

 remains. They then begin with the second number, and, when its contents 

 have been told out, they respectively take out of the cups (amongst which 

 the last told out counter falls) their contents, and proceed to count as before. 

 They may take the whole of the number in any cup, or only part of it. 

 The parties agree that after a certain number has been won by one of them 

 the game shall cease — as it may be immoderately lengthened out. 



Len SaM is played with counters like Backgammon — the moves being 

 regulated by dice. The box has the same number of marks as the Euro- 

 pean one, and indeed the game bears such a close resemblance to our 

 Backgammon, that it may be perhaps supposed to have been taught to 

 them by European traders. 



