Gyalpo Tanor

The game is basically a string game of trickily moving the bamboo pieces hung on the string. It is played in the district of Tashigang in eastern Bhutan. String are attached to a bamboo pieces with two holes in the centre. Two loops are created with two bamboo pieces hung on it. The trick is to move the two bamboo pieces on the same loop. A king and a clever man is said to have had a contest to do the trick, keeping a horse as a bet. The intelligent man is said to have succeeded in trickily moving the bamboo pieces from one point to the other and won the horse. As the king lost the horse, the game is know as gyalpo tashor, or the king losing a horse.