Tobit. This is from Kakassia, in Russian central Asia. I never heard of Kakassia either. Credit to David McCord at NewVenture Games for noticing and putting out this game. It's not like he was sitting at the table listening to the rules in Kakassian or Russian.
 
 

The lines out the sides helped to make this intriguing to me. Diagonal movement rubs me the wrong way for some reason, but this is orthogonal. Boardgame Geek just gets its rules from McCord, as they make clear. Wikipedia's rules are the same as McCord. How are hullar represented? Lines off to the side don't work the way I expected.
 
 

McCord and Sladkov have different rules. You can learn a lot from a comment on the McCord video. For McCord, tobits can make long moves, make a long jump capture, then revert to being a hulla. For Sladkov tobits are exactly the same as hullar, but they can capture backwards. Can you move from one position to another that is not connected by a line? McCord example. Sladkov does not do that (confused by the fact that Sladkov doesn't have lines).

Resignation = draw? I wonder if that works in hockey.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

There are dice roller race games, for example The Royal Game of Ur. There is capture when you land on an opponent's piece from behind, and some squares are safe and give you an extra move.

So what if you had a race game, particularly The Royal Game of Ur, and the pieces are rock/paper/scissors? Like captures like. Some more tactical complexity. Physically the pieces would have one dot, two dots, or a triangle of three dots. A piece with one dot could capture the piece with three dots. Maybe a rosette means an extra move but not safe space. Testing can sort this out.
 

If this actually worked, what should the name be, and maybe theme?

NEW I had thought of red, white, red for the three rows, with a maple leaf for the rosette(s). But that's a headscratcher.