Editing Mak-yek (section)

== Second version of Mak-yek ==
Both Captain James Low and H.J.R. Murray described a second version of Mak-yek which resembles more of a [[Hunting|hunt]] game where one player possesses only one piece, and goes against another player with sixteen pieces.  The player with one piece can move in any direction except diagonally, and capture a single enemy piece by leaping over it as long as there is an empty square behind it.<ref name="HuttmannMakYek" /><ref name="MurrayMakYek" />  No more detail of the game's rules is provided, but it does appear that the game is played on the same 8 x 8 square board since both authors make no attempt to describe a different board.  If it is not the same board, it is at the very least a square board of some dimension since both authors describe that the single piece can leap over one of the sixteen pieces provided it lands on an empty ''square'' behind the leapt piece.  If this is indeed a hunt game, it is a contrast to most hunt games from around the world and especially in Southeast Asia where most hunt game boards are of a linear pattern.  It also would not be a variant of the first version of Mak-yek which is definitely not a hunt game.