The first seven captures are made from holes with two counters.
Rules
Three rows of four holes; the central two holes in the middle row are stores. Each player owns the hole in the central row to their left. Ten counters in each hole. Players sow from one of their holes, sowing first into the hole from which the counters were lifted, in an anti-clockwise direction. When the final counter lands in a hole containing two counters, these counters are captured. The player captures like this seven times. The eighth captures happens when the final counter falls into a hole containing one counter; the next capture from a hole containing three; the next from a hole containing five; then repeating the pattern of one, three, five for the rest of the game. The player who captures the most counters wins.
Described rulesets Three Counters
Captures are made from holes containing three counters. Four Counters
Captures are made from holes with four counters. Five Counters
Captures are made from holes containing five counters.
Origin
Nigeria
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Sources
Egharevba, J. 1951. Benin Games and Sports. Sapele: Central Press.
