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.