The game TABLANI, TABL, TABLAM we used to play Tablanim game we used to play now almost extinct
Tablani game briefly explained as below.. https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoaukextra3/23731537680/ An indoor (usually during monsoon) scoreboard, dealing game with four bamboo sticks / bars Made from Bamboo, keeping the outer green part as it is and inside (yellowish part) is smoothen in curve form TABL (Singular), TABLAM (Plural) and TABLANI (name of the Game) TABL is pronounced as 'Table' in French e.g The book is on the table, in French we say 'Le livre est sur la table' The game consists of a set of 4 bars/Sticks called TABLAM (about 6-8 inch long), a wooden scoreboard (Tabler) with 4 columns each having 12 squares or houses and a set of 12 stones / pieces (gulio) usually red and white stones which are easy to get outside the house or by the well. The pieces that belong to each team are distinguished by colour. It can be any other things like Tamarind seeds and Chikoo seeds etc Tablani can be played by 2, 4, 6, 8,10..players thus each group has equal members. Leader of the group is sat on the scoreboard (Tabler, Pron. as taab-layr). To be alive or active in the game, each player has to score a 'tabl' without which scoring like 'att' 'bara' etc have no value. Scoring either TABL or ATT or BARA gives you a chance to toss/deal repeatedly Scoreboard / Tabler Basically, it a game of entering into opponent's house by beating or attacking any opponents found on the way.. Once you get a tabl, you can exit from your house and set your journey to occupy your opponent house. You climb (second column) and then climb down (column 3) to enter into your opponent house (column 4) Mind you, your opponent will also try his best to enter your house which means there are attacks and counter attacks on the way to opponent's house. A Tiatr Stage pic showing a man holding tablam in his hand for shuffling and tossing https://flic.kr/p/A6uMeR to be updated soon.... visit again more info and pics and video playing tablani coming soon visit here http://joegoauk.blogspot.in/2015/12/the-game-tablani-tabl-tablam-we-used-to.html
