Komikan

In modern Quechua, the language of the ethnolinguistic group that are the descendants of the Incas, Taptana means "chess".

Throughout South America the game is known as El león y las ovejas which literally means "the lion and the sheep".

In Komikan, one player has only a single piece, usually called a "puma" or "jaguar", or "kom ikelu" (in Mapuche language "the one which eats all"), or "leon" (Spanish for lion), which can move one space at a time or capture the other player's pieces by hopping over them.

This board has been used as an argument that Komikan or Taptana is a Pre-Hispanic or Pre-Columbian indigenous game of South America.

The last Inca emperor Atahualpa is shown on an illustration to play taptana in the Cajamarca jail with his Spanish guard (from Waman Puma de Ayala in his book written in 1615 pgs.

The puma or jaguar (or leon) was allowed to make multiple short leaps in capturing the sheep or goats.