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Owasakut DLP Game   

Period Modern

Region Northern America

Category Reconstruction, Pending, Board, Race, Reach

Description

Owasakut is a race game played the Aak'u people of New Mexico. It is a circle of thirty stones, where players move sticks which represent horses.

Rules

Thirty stones placed in a circle, with a large gap after every tenth stone. The spaces between the stones are the playing spaces. One stick per player. Three stick dice, black on one side and white on the other. Throws are as follows: three black = 10; three white = 5; two white = 2; one white = 3.

Origin

New Mexico

Ludeme Description

Owasakut.lud

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Sources

Culin, S. 1907. Games of the North American Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Identifiers

DLP.Games.715


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