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Li'b al-'Aqil (Mankala, Leab el-'Akil)DLP Game   

Period Modern

Region Northern Africa

Category Board, Sow, Two rows

Description

Li'b al-'Aqil ("game of the wise") is a two-row mancala-style board game from Egypt. It allows one player to distribute the counters as they wish, and the opponent to swap the board around if they do not like the result.

Rules

2x6 board. 72 counters are distributed unevenly into the holes with the only rule that corresponding holes on either side of the board must contain counters. The opponent moves first, but may flip the board around if they prefer that arrangement, sacrificing the first move. Counters are sowed in an anti-clockwise direction from a hole in the player's row. If the last counter falls into a hole making it odd, these are picked up and sowing continues. If it lands in a hole making it even, these counters are captured as are the ones in the opposite hole. If the previous hole also has an even number, these and the ones in the opposite hole are captured. If the last counter falls into an empty hole, the turn ends. If a player has no counters in their holes, the opponent must give them one counter, to be placed in the leftmost hole and played from there. Play ends when the board is cleared of counters. Each player counts the number of counters they captured. The player with more counters is given a score equal to the difference in the number of counters. Another round begins again exactly as before. The game is won when a player accumulates sixty points.

Lane 1836: 346.

Origin

Egypt

Ludeme Description

Li'b al-'Aqil.lud

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Reference

Murray 1951: 167.

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Sources

Lane, E. W. 1836. An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians. London: John Murray.

Murray, H.J.R. 1951. A History of Board-Games Other Than Chess. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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Identifiers

DLP.Games.395


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