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Mwendo DLP Game   

Period Modern

Region Eastern Africa, Middle Africa

Category Board, Sow, Four rows

Description

Mwendo is a board game played among children of the Luenda and Bunda people of Angola. It is similar to mancala-style games, but the ownership of holes is determined by whether a player's counters are in the hole, rather than being fixed.

Rules

4x4-16 board, played only along the perimeter. Three counters per hole. Any number of players. Holes are distributed equally among the players. Sowing occurs in a clockwise direction. Counters are sown one per occupied hole, two per empty hole. Each player owns the holes in which their counters are located at the beginning of their turn, and they must sow from the rightmost hole. If the final counter of a sowing falls into an empty hole, the player sows again from the rightmost hole. Alternatively, a player may place all of the counters from the rightmost counter into the next hole, but this cannot be done after a move. When counters fall into holes belonging to an opponent, these hole and the counters in it are captured by the player, but remain in play. When a player has a single counter and empty holes in from of it, this counter leaps to the next hole occupied by the opponent. The player who captures all of the opponent's holes wins.

Silva 1995: 111-112.

Origin

Angola

Ludeme Description

Mwendo.lud

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Sources

Silva, E. R. S. 1995. Jogos do quadrícula do tipo mancala com especial incidência nos praticados em Angola. Lisbon: Instituto de investigação cientifica tropical.

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Identifiers

DLP.Games.253


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