BRAU

WINNING CONDITIONS

In addition to possessing one Golden Star badge (earned by winning a Challenge round), the player must successfully move (by placing a colored token) to all of the following regions by correctly answering questions on the cards corresponding to these provinces/cities:

• Kon Tum Province

• One province in the Northern Midlands and Mountainous Region with a Group 1 tile

• One province in the Central Highlands or Mekong Delta with a Group 2 tile

• One province in the Red River Delta with a Group 3 tile

• One province in the Southeast Region with a Group 4 tile

  
  

SPECIAL PRIVILEGE

If a player lands on a province/city that belongs to the living area of the ethnic group they represent, they receive a special privilege (granted only ONCE during the game):

• Either confiscate 2 province/city markers from any other player on the board and return them to the bank OR

• Convert 1 province/city marker of another player into their own

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ETHNIC GROUP INFORMATION

• Origin and Migration History: Ancestors originally lived in southern Laos and northeastern Cambodia. Today, most Brâu people still live along the Sekong (Sê San) and Nam Khoong (Mekong) river basins. A small group migrated to Vietnam about 150–160 years ago (6–7 generations ago) and settled in the tri-border area between Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.

• Social Relations: Small families, some wealth disparity. Gender equality is practiced. Matrilineal family structures still exist.

• Marriage Customs: Weddings are held at the bride’s house. Uxorilocal residence (groom lives with bride’s family) lasts 4–5 years post-wedding, followed by a cohabitation phase alternating between both families.

• Funeral Rites: Death is announced with drums. Coffins are made by hollowing out logs, and burials are semi-subterranean. A grave house is built over the burial site, containing the deceased's belongings.

• Housewarming Rituals: Involves offerings to deities, with the entire village participating.

• Festivals and New Year: New Rice Festival after the harvest. The date of the New Year celebration depends on the family and agricultural calendar.

• Culture: Folk songs, lullabies, and wedding songs are common.

• Traditions: Oral tales about the god Pa Xây and legends of Un Cha, a mythical builder.

• Musical Instruments: Klông pút (bamboo percussion instrument) and a set of bronze gongs (coong, mam, tha).

• Clothing: Men wear loincloths; women wrap themselves in fabric skirts. Both genders may stretch their earlobes to wear bamboo or ivory earrings.

• Cuisine: Sticky rice cooked in bamboo tubes (cơm lam), plain rice cooked in clay pots, rượu cần (fermented alcohol drunk through bamboo straws), and loose-leaf tobacco smoked through a bamboo pipe.

• Housing: Long stilt houses with steeply pitched roofs; floors have two distinct levels. Villages are arranged in a circular layout, with houses radiating like spokes from the center, similar to a cartwheel.

• Culture & Heritage:

Bộ chiêng Tha 2 chiếc: Chuar (vợ) và Jơliêng (chồng)