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Evidence for Tsoro Yemutatu
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.2086
Type Ethnography
Location Zimbabwe
Date 1964-01-01 - 1964-12-31
Rules 3x3 intersecting lines, with diagonals drawn in the large square. Three pieces per player. Players alternate turns placing a stone on an empty point on the board. When all of the pieces have been placed, players alternate turns moving one of their pieces to any empty point. The first player to place three of their pieces in a line wins.
Content "Tsoro Yemutatu. This, in its various forms, is a very simple form of Tsoro yemutwelve. Each side has only three stones, so that the first person to complete a line is the winner. The stones may be moved anywhere, not just one space. " Matthews 1964: 68.
Confidence 100
Ages Child, Adolescent, Adult
Spaces Outside, Public
Genders Male
Source Matthews, J. 1964. "Notes on Some African Stone Games." NADA: The Southern Rhodesia Native Affairs Department Annual 9(1): 64-66.
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