Traditional Games

Indonesia traditional game : Congklak

Congklak is unrivalled of the far-famed traditional games in Indonesia. Nearly everyone know this game. If you would like to explore extra around congklak, here may be the correct web pages for you to know relating to it.
There came couple of way to play congklak which the tool also is very basic. Previously & I thought that many of the individuals in the last day will take on congklak employing plainly some stone as the tools.

What is congklak. Congklak is a Indonesia traditional games and also a few other neighborhood in the region. It is a game in which it require two individuals to play it. The prevent of the game is to get as many ‘stone’ as imaginable & the player which one can get most of the stone or even all the stone at the end will transform into the winner. There are many round that the participant need to take on, there are no time restrict but the participant will have to destroy the opponent by having most or all the stone.

The toolsThere are two possible tools that is employ to play congklak. In the former days, many persons could play congklak using 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 currently is that they will buy a congklak tools which is a piece of wood which have hole in it as the place to put the stone in. At present player also didn’t use stone anymore and it has been replaced with tiny and beautiful marble.How to play congklakCongkak games takes the player to be alert of what the opposition do. He should be incredible in figuring and prepare skilful strategy to winnings this game.

The player will choose to take marble from any hole in his side and he will put one marble in each hole starting the next hole in the left. He need to put the marble in each hole including his ‘house hole’ with single except of opponent ‘house hole’. This is how a player will win, i.e. if he able to ‘play’ congkak without whatsoever distruption or stop the ‘house hole’ can get more marble. After the last marble that he keep fall into any hole, the player can take all the marble in that hole & continue to play. Even so, if the marble fall into empty hole, he get to stop and allow the opposition continue to play till the opponent also have this position 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 whatever hole ONLY from his side after he get the opportunity to play. Nevertheless, if the last marble that he keep fall into his ‘house hole’, the player will get a second chance to commence the game & the opponent may just get to wait.

Rule of congklak gameHere is a couple rule of congklak game which the player need to remember.

In the beginning , both player start together but later just one player at a time if 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 will 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 could 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) will filled up every one that he have. and after that the game may start again. The game shall 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 Congklak games and each version can 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 congklak help the player how to calculate & make strategies. Actually there are many tips on how to play congklak & some experience player can even forecast which hole he should ‘start’ in different senario. However, all the tip on playing congklak is the story of another day… good luck & thanks for interesting in traditional games.