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One of the board games that created by Filipinos is Damath and Sci-dama.

This was invented by


Jesus L. Huenda, a teacher in Sorsogon, Philippines who had encountered problems in teaching
math using traditional methods. Damath and Sci-dama is a logical and arithmetic game that aims
to score higher than opponent to be able to win in Damath while in Sci-dama the one who score
lowest is the winner.
The board is similar to a checkerboard but with a twist. All white tiles on the board have a
mathematical symbol which dictates the operation that will be used when a player's piece
captures the opponent's piece. It has numbers labeled 0-7 on its sides to determine the
coordinates of the piece.
The rules of damath and sci-dama is almost similar to checkers on how to play, the differences
are: for every pieces there are corresponding values depending on what variety of damath or scidama is being played, there is one minute allotted time to each player to make a move, when
capturing the opponent's piece, the player need to answer correctly by calculating the number
value of players piece which captures the opponents piece. The mathematical operation used
depends where the players piece lands after the capture. The game ends when the player resigns,
the player has no more pieces, repetitive moves, or the last opponents piece is captured. Final
score determined by adding all score in scoresheet.
In the game of the damath or sci-dama there must be 3 different people to be able to play the
game. Two are the players of the game and one for scorer. The role of the players in damath is
the one who has highest score win while in sci-dama the one who has lowest score win. The role
of scorer is to jot down the scores for every attack while playing the game.
Playing game of the damath and sci-dama required board and pieces for every variations, this is
the one problem of traditional play, people need to bring board and pieces to be able to play with
the corresponding pieces for every variations. Because of that the proponents wanted to improve
the game by making it android where players can play by 2 androidphones via Bluetooth and
wifi or by 1 androidphone, same goes that player can play by himself because there is artificial
intelligence that he can challenge, and there are different variations or types of damath and scidama that can choose.

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