background Ludii Portal
Home of the Ludii General Game System

   

Home Games Forum Downloads References Concepts Contribute Tutorials Tournaments World Map Ludemes About


 
Mulabalaba DLP Game   

Period Modern

Region Eastern Africa

Category Board, Space, Line

Description

Mulabalaba is an alignment game played in the Livingtone district of Zambia.

Rules

Three concentric squares, with lines connecting the corners and the midpoints of the sides. Twelve pieces per player. Players alternate turns placing a piece on the board. When a player makes a line of three of their pieces, they may remove one of the opponent's pieces. When all of the pieces have been placed, players alternate turns moving a piece to an empty adjacent spot along the lines of the board. A piece in the four outside corner spaces is allowed to move to any empty spot on the board. The player who captures all of the opponent's pieces wins.

Chaplin 1956: 170.

Origin

Zambia

Ludeme Description

Mulabalaba.lud

Concepts

Browse all concepts for Mulabalaba here.

Evidence Map

1 pieces of evidence in total. Browse all evidence for Mulabalaba here.

Click on any marker or highlighted region to view the evidence relating to it.
To view all regions, please select it from the category options below.

Evidence category:

Evidence coloured based on:

Map style:



Sources

Chaplin, J. 1956. "A Note on Mancala Games in Northern Rhodesia." Man 56: 168-170.

Similar Games

Tule Paid

Nao Guti

Fettas

Xonin Shatar (Simple)

Six-Penny Madell

Triodi (Diagonal)

Achi

Mlabalaba

Triodi

Zurgaan Tal

Identifiers

DLP.Games.1413


     Contact Us
     ludii.games@gmail.com
     cameron.browne@maastrichtuniversity.nl

lkjh Maastricht University Department of Advanced Computing Sciences (DACS), Paul-Henri Spaaklaan 1, 6229 EN Maastricht, Netherlands Funded by a €2m ERC Consolidator Grant (#771292) from the European Research Council