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Evidence for Rab'e
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1394
Type Ethnography
Location 15°36'28.30"N, 39°27'19.36"E
Date 1971-01-01 - 1971-12-31
Rules 3x6 board. Four counters per hole. Each player controls one row of holes and the half of the central row to their right.Sowing occurs from left ro right in the player's full row, right to left in their holes in the central row, then right to left in the opponent's full row, then left to right in the opponent's holes in the central row, at that point continuing into the player's full row again. when the final counter is sown into an occupied hole, the counters are picked up and sowing continues. When the final counter falls into an empty hole, the turn ends. At any point while the player sows, if a hole is made to contain four counters, these are captured, regardless of who the hole belongs to. When the final counter causes a capture, the turn ends. Play continues until a player has no counters in their holes. The opponent then captures the remaining counters. Players then redistribute their counters, four in each hole, starting from the leftmost hole in their row in the direction of play. The player with fewer counters distributes all of their counters on the board, even if they cannot place four in the final hole of the counting. The player with more counters then places four counters in the same number of holes as the other player, taking any remaining as their winnings. Play continues in this fashion until one player captures all of the counters.
Content "Gabata II This game, based on three rows each of six holes, with four balls per hole, has some similarities with Game 7 though the latter is played on a two-row board. This game was played by Sagaye Gabra Mikael who refers to it as rab'e because of its use of four balls per hole. Players, who play alternately, move from any of their holes, in the direction and method described for Game 1. Each player appropriates all groups of four balls made in the course of his move, irrespectively of on whose row they appear, and a player capturing four balls with the last ball in his hand thus terminates the move. On effecting any group of four counters he may say lahemay walidateliy, once more referring to his cow "giving birth." The procedure for the completion of the rouns and commencement of subsequent rounds is as for Game 1." Pankhurst 1971: 172.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Genders Male
Source Pankhurst, R. 1971. Gabata and Related Board Games of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia Observer 14(3):154-206.
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