Surakarta (game)

[5] Traditional Indonesian game pieces are shells versus pebbles or stones, with the board grid inscribed in sand or volcanic ash.

The capturing piece enters and leaves the circular loop via a grid line tangent to the circle.

If neither side can make headway, the game is ended by agreement and the winner is the player with the greater number of pieces in play.

A couple of methods are typically used: In general, pieces are more powerful toward the centre of the board, where they are in one or two sets of loops.

Surakarta variants are also played in rural China and Korea, with slightly different rules and boards.

[11] A 7×7 grid variant with 14 pieces for each player is played in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia and is called Bas-basan sepur.

Bas-basan sepur today is rarely known in Yogyakarta with only 5.6% of participants in one 2016 survey showing knowledge of the game.