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Malaysia traditional game : Congkak

Congkak is unmatchable of the renowned traditional games in Malaysia. There are many people that like this game If you would like to checkout more relating to congkak, this place exists the better space for you to pick out just about it.

There can be couple of mode to play congkak which the tool also is extremely basic. Previously & I believed that numerous of the people in the former day might recreate congkak utilizing only some stone as the tools.

What is congkak.
Congkak is a Malaysia traditional games & also some other neighbourhood in the region. It is a game where it need two persons to take on it. The end of the game is to get as many ‘stone’ as possible and the participant which could have virtually all of the stone or all the stone at the end will exist as the winner. There are numbers of round that the player have to play, there are no time limit but the player will have to kill the opposition by acquiring virtually all or all the stone.

The tools
There are two likely tools that is use to play congkak. In the previous days, several people may play congkak by having only some stone as their tools. In this case, the player will need to dig hole on the ‘playing ground’ and they will use the hole as one more tools.

The other way or the one that several people do now is that they may buy a congkak tools which is a piece of wood which have hole in it as the place to put the stone in. Currently player also didn’t use stone anymore and it has been replaced with small & beautiful marble.

The photo below is the tools which is use to play congkak.

Based on the photograph above, the prominent hole in two end of the tools is call ‘house’. There are two house in the congkak game which is belong to each of the player. The house will locate in the left of the player. While the further hole is the ‘ground’ that the player shall & will play. There is two variation of the tools, one have only five playground hole in each side & one more variation have seven playground hole in each side. The marble or the stone that is need for this game will depend on how many playground hole. In case there are seven hole, we may need seven marble in each hole. While if the hole is only five hole, we will need five marble in each hole.

How to play congkak
Congkak games will require the player to be alert of what the opponent do. He should be acute in calculation & look at realistic strategy to gain this game.

The player will scan to take marble from any hole in his side and he will put one marble in each hole beginning the next hole in the left. He ought to put the marble in each hole including his ‘house hole’ with exclusively except of opponent ‘house hole’. This is how a player will win, i.e. if he capable to ‘play’ congkak without whatever distruption or stop the ‘house hole’ could get more marble. If the last marble that he handle fall into any hole, the player shall take all the marble in that hole & continue to play. Eventually, if the marble fall into empty hole, he have to stop and let the opponent continue to play until the opponent also have this post and stop. This is when the opposition take turn to play (after the other player stop). The player can choose to start (or select) marble from whatsoever hole ONLY from his side while he get the chance to play. Eventually, if the last marble that he handle fall into his ‘house hole’, the player may stand even more, chance to start out the game and the opponent could only get to wait.

Rule of congkak game
Here is some rule of congkak game which the player have to remember.

In the beginning , two player start out together but later simply one player at a time after one of the player have to stop (his last marble fall into empty hole)

After the end of one game which is after all marble is finish in every hole, both player can start over using only the marble that he have accumulate during the game. For example if one player (just call player A) get only 30 pieces of marble - he may have opportunity to fill up only few hole - in case 7 marble each hole - only 4 hole is filled up which the other hole is consider cancelled. While another player (player B) could filled up every one that he have. & after that the game can start again. The game will finally end only if one of the player surrender or one of the player get all the marble.

Some last word.
There are many version of Congkak games & each version will have their own rule which sometime only based on the player agreement (but it is not too differ from the above). This traditional games of congkak help the player how to calculate and make strategies. Actually there are many tips on how to play congkak & some experience player can even forecast which hole he should ‘start’ in different senario. Still, all the tip on playing congkak is the story of another day… good luck and thanks for interesting in traditional games.