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Evidence for Three Counters
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.2241
Type Contemporary rule description
Game The Concentration Game
Location 6°19'3.94"N, 5°36'53.52" E
Date 1948-01-01 - 1948-12-31
Rules Three rows of four holes; the central two holes in the middle row are stores. Each player owns the hole in the central row to their left. Ten counters in each hole. Players sow from a hole in their row, sowing first into the hole from which the counters were lifted. Captures are made when the final counter lands in a hole containing three counters. The first three captures are made in this way. The fourth capture is made from a hole containing one counter, he next from a hole with three, the next from a hole with five, repeating in the pattern of one, three, five.The player who captures the most counters wins.
Content "Three dice wont(sic) win another three dice in the hols three times and then revert to win one, three and five dice." Egharevba 1951: 7.
Confidence 100
Source Egharevba, J. 1951. Benin Games and Sports. Sapele: Central Press.
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