Damath

An abstract educational board-game that combines Filipino checkers or “Dama” and basic Mathematical operations. A tabletop game used in schools around the Philippines.

Players alternatingly move their numbered chips from 0-11 forward diagonally in a checkerboard filled with operation symbols. Pieces are required to capture opponent's pieces that are adjacent to them and can be skipped upon by a vacant square diagonally across it; the player must them compute the resulting answer between the two numbers using the operation in which their piece landed on. Numbers which reach the end of the board are called “Dama” pieces, and has the power to move as many spaces diagonally as they want, scores made with this piece are doubled after resolving the operation, two “damas” capturing one another are then multiplied by four.

The game ends when there are no more moves for a player, a player loses all of their pieces, or if the time runs out, and the player with the higher score at the end of the game wins.