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Evidence for Ashanti Alignment Game
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1875
Type Ethnography
Location Nineteenth Century Ashanti
Date 1817-01-01 - 1817-12-31
Rules The board is a series of intersecting lines in many directions, each line with three points. Players have equal numbers of pegs, and place their pieces at the same time. Players who place three of their pieces in a row remove one of the opponent's pieces. The player who removes all of the opponent's pieces wins.
Content "They have another game, for which a board is perforated like a cribbage board, but in numerous oblique lines, traversing each other in all directions, and each composed of three holes for pegs; the players begin at the same instant, with an equal number of pegs, and he who inserts or completes a line first, in spite of the baulks of his adversary, takes a peg from him, until the stock of either is exhausted." Bowdtich 1819: 303.
Confidence 100
Source Bowditch, T. 1819. Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee, with a Statistical Account of that Kingdom, and Geographical Notices of other Parts of the Interior of Africa. London: J. Murray.
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