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Namudilakunze (Chisolo)DLP Game   

Period Modern

Region Eastern Africa

Category Board, Sow, Four rows

Description

Namudilakunze is a four-row mancala-style board game played by the Ba-Ila people of Zambia. It was played there in the early twentieth century.

Rules

4x7-10 board (seven most common). One counter in each hole, with the player's leftmost hole in the outer row empty. On the first turn, sowing occurs in a clockwise direction. On the second turn, the player may sow in either direction, but must continue in the chosen direction for the rest of the game. Captures are made when the final counter of a sowing lands in an empty hole in the inner row. Captures are only made from the opponent's opposite outer row hole, and only when their inner row hole is empty. If the final counter lands in an occupied hole, the player picks up these counters and continues sowing. The player who captures all of the opponent's counters wins.

Smith and Dale 1920: 232-237.

Ludeme Description

Namudilakunze.lud

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Reference

Murray 1951: 210.

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Sources

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

Smith, E and A. Dale. 1920. The Ila-speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia. London: Macmillan.

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Identifiers

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