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Wari DLP Game   

Period Modern

Region Western Africa

Category Board, Sow, Two rows

Description

Wari is a two-row mancala-style board game played by the Ashanti people of West Africa.

Rules

2x6 board with two stores. Four counters in each hole. Players alternate turns sowing from one of the holes on their side of the board in an anticlockwise direction. When a counter lands in one of the opponent's holes, making it contain six counters, those counters are captured. The player who captures the most counters wins.


Cardinall 1927: 254.

Origin

Ghana

Ludeme Description

Wari.lud

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Reference

Murray 1951: 185.

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Sources

Cardinall, A. 1927. In Ashanti and Beyond. ondon: Seeley, Service and Co. Limited.

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

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Identifiers

DLP.Games.1428


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