Hat diviyan keliya

Hat diviyan keliya is a two-player abstract strategy game from Sri Lanka (formerly called Ceylon).

[1] The game was then documented by Henry Parker as Hat diviyan keliya in his work Ancient Ceylon: An Account of the Aborigines and of Part of the Early Civilisation (1909), and he transcribed its name as The Game of the Seven Leopards.

The game is also described by the Czech language website Klub přátel deskových her[3] which refers to it as Sedm pardálů which when translated into English means seven panthers (or seven leopards), and references Miloš Zapletal work Špalíček her (1988).

The website describes two variants of the game, the one described by Ludovici and Parker and another one with a slightly larger board (consisting of an extra row of three intersection points) with two tigers and eight leopards.

The following setup and rules are based upon Leopold Ludovici's description of the game.