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Berges or Persis is a popular board game with Indian origins, known in the heritage of the Levant, as Syrians introduced it to the region at the beginning of the twentieth century.

The peerage consists of a piece of cloth, often black in color, embroidered with a cross-square shape, each of its ribs is in the form of a rectangle, and it is divided into three lengths, and each length is divided into small squares, the number of which is eight squares in each arm in length and three in width . Several coins and shells are also used in the game

The goal of the game
Usually two or four players play in this game, divided into two teams of two in each team. Each team has a place to start and finish, and each team has its own stone. The first carries four horse-headed stones, and the second carries the dome-headed stones, and the player throws the farewell stones according to their quality, then starts playing by walking with the stones so that each stone wraps the four badges and then connects the middle badge to the kitchen (in the middle of the two rectangles), and if they happen to be present A horse stone is in one of the badges and the badge itself has a dome stone, so he takes it out of the game, and the player here has to start over, and the player who connects the four stones to the kitchen before the other wins the game. If a player inserts all the shells without his opponent entering any stone, the result is a win.

Game components
1- A square-shaped embroidered cloth that divides the inside into small squares

2- Al-Wada ': Six pieces of two-sided shells, which determine the number of squares that the stone will cross in each throw

3- Stones: which are moved according to the farewell resulting from the throw, and it is divided into two parts: roosters and soldiers, where each team chooses one of the two types, either as roosters or soldiers, and each player controls four pieces.

Laws of the game
- The first player throws the six deposits, and if the result is (bing or stomping) he has the right to insert one stone into the uncle, and he has to throw a second time. He walks his stones for the number of moves he got, and finishes his turn and gives goodbyes to the second player.

- The player enters one room when he gets the maternal uncle and puts it in a special square named Shira, and the mole is either the result of the dow's throw, or the result of the anesthetic throw, as previously indicated.

- If the place where the stone of the first team coincides with the position of the stone of the second team, then the stone of the first team expels the stone of the second team, and thus the second team must re-enter his stone through the uncle again, unless the stone of the second team stands on one of the special squares (called the shira In this case, the first team’s stone does not have the right to expel the second party’s stone.