CategoryReconstruction, Done, Board, War, Leaping, Lines
Description
Aiyawatstani is a capturing game played at the Acoma Pueblo of New Mexico. According to oral tradition, it came with the Acoma people when they came from the north.
Rules
5x5 intersecting lines, with diagonals in each small square. Twenty-two pieces per player, one black and one white, arranged on the four rows (counting the points where diagonals cross as rows) closest to each player; the central point remains empty, the black player places two pieces on the outer points and the white player places two on the inner two points.
