 He speculates that the game may have died out south of Ivgovuotna because it was only in the far north that the Coast Sámi made certain innovations to the game that made it interesting enough to keep playing for centuries (i.e.the king and king’s children, the increased freedom of pieces to move).This explanation presses the question of why the less “exciting” version, daldøs, did survive in southern Scandinavia.