Ždala

Ždala is a village in Croatia. It is connected by the D210 highway to Gola. Its population in 2001 was 718.

Located on the Hungarian border almost all residents speak a dialect of the Hungarian language, although they declare themselves Croats.

Ždala has a kindergarten and elementary school. The Roman Catholic parish church is dedicated to Holy Trinity.

Dala (game)

Dala is a two-player abstract strategy board game from Sudan, and played especially by the Baggara tribes. The game is also called Herding the Cows (or Herding the Bulls). It is an alignment game with captures similar to that of the game Dara. Players first drop their pieces onto the board, and then move them (herding the cows) orthogonally in an attempt to form 3 in-a-rows which allows a player to capture any of their opponent's piece on the board.

Goal

The player who reduces their opponent's number of pieces to two is the winner. The opponent can no longer form a 3-in-a-row with two pieces or fewer.

Equipment

A 6x6 square board is used. Each player has a set of 12 pieces of which one set is black, and the other is white.

Traditionally, the board was played on a raised soft mud, and the lines of the board were drawn onto it and marked by holes called "Nugar". Each player had 12 sharpened sticks that would be placed into the holes during play. To differentiate the sticks, the bark was removed on one set of the sticks, while the other set would retain its bark.