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Evidence for Adzua
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1998
Type Ethnography
Location Jukun
Date 1931-01-01 - 1931-12-31
Rules 5x6 board, rendered as holes in the ground. Twelve pieces per player. Players alternate turns placing a piece in one of the holes. When a player succeeds in making a line of three holes with their pieces, they capture one of the opponent's pieces.
Content Account from Meek: "The Jukun, like many Nigerian tribes, play a game which is akin to backgammon. It is known as adzua, and is played by males and females, especially during the dry season. Males do not use a board, and the game played by them differs from that played by females (who use a board). In lieu of a board the men make thirty holes in the ground, arranged in a rectangular fashion, so that one side of the rectangle has six holes and the other five. The total of thirty thus corresponds to the thirty "men" of our game of backgammon. But whereas in the English game there are fifteen "men" a side, in the Jukun game each of the two players employs twelve pieces only, so that six holes are left empty...The main idea is to organize your play so that three of your pieces form a line, in which case you can confiscate one of your opponent's pieces. The right to make the initial move is a matter of agreement if there had been no preceding game; but the winner of a previous game is entitled to the first move in the succeeding game. Whoever makes the first move calls himself "the king." The pieces used are stones." Meek 1931: 456.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Spaces Outside, Public
Genders Male
Source Meek, C. 1931. A Sudanese Kingdom: An Ethnographical Study of the Jukun Speaking Peoples of Nigeria. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co.
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