MANG

WINNING CONDITIONS

In addition to owning 1 Gold Star Badge (earned by winning a Challenge Turn), the player must also successfully move (place a colored token) to all of the following locations by correctly answering the question on the card corresponding to each province/city:

• Lai Châu Province

• Đắk Lắk Province

• Đồng Nai Province

• One province/city in the Red River Delta or North Central Coast regions that belongs to Group 3 tiles

  
  

SPECIAL PRIVILEGE

If a player lands on a province/city tile located in the traditional living area of the ethnic group they currently represent, they are granted a special privilege (only once per game):

• Either confiscate 2 province/city flags from another player on the board and return them to the bank OR

• Convert 1 province/city flag owned by another player into their own

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ETHNIC GROUP INFORMATION

Origins: One of the indigenous ethnic groups native to the Northwestern region of Vietnam.

Social Structure: The social leader is known as Pơgia. The Bản (also called Muy) functions to preserve traditional customs. Each village typically consists of one large clan, led collectively by clan elders and a council of village seniors. There are five main clans, each symbolized by a specific totem animal.

Festivals: They celebrate the New Rice Festival after the harvest in the 10th lunar month. Annual rituals are held to worship the spirits of the village and household, asking for peace and harmony.

Spiritual Beliefs: Household spirits (ma nhà) are worshipped during Tet or when someone in the family is ill. Ancestor worship is central, especially veneration of ma Đẳm—the ancestral founder.

Folk Arts: They are fond of the traditional folk singing style called xoỏng. Legends about their ancestral land Muăng Buăng are passed down through generations.

Facial Tattoo Tradition: The O ăm facial tattoo is a rite of passage. Boys aged 16–18 and girls aged 15–16 undergo this ritual to be officially recognized by the community and by their ancestors in the afterlife.

Traditional Clothing: Mảng women wear a large wrap-around shawl embroidered with red thread. They leave their heads bare and tie their hair into a topknot.

Cuisine: They eat two main meals a day—at noon and in the evening. Corn is the staple food, often mixed with cassava or a small amount of rice. They enjoy pickled steamed cassava leaves, drink white rice wine, and often smoke pipe tobacco.

Housing: Although their houses are modest, site selection, ground leveling, pole erection, and roof building are all done based on dates chosen by a spiritual medium (fortune teller).

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