It is usually played as one of three different games in succession – the others being Portes and Plakoto – in social gatherings or coffee shops.

Very similar games, with slight variations, are Turkish Moultezim, Russian Narde and Egyptian and Lebanese Tawla 31 or Maghribiyyah.

[1] Fevga is a running game of parallel movement in which both players start in opposite corners of the board but then move in the same direction – anticlockwise – around it.

To begin with each player must advance one man past the opposing start point before moving a second piece.

The key differences are that: Parlett (1999) records that Moultezim is a form of the French game Jacquet still played in Turkey.

In Moultezim, players begin each game by rolling for first play and there is no limitation on primes.