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Awalé

Game Night
A
PLAYERS
2
DIFFICULTY
SETTING
Both
MATERIALS
HOW TO PLAY
1

Place four seeds into every pit along both rows before play begins.

2

On your turn, scoop up all the seeds from one pit on your own row and sow them one at a time into the following pits, moving counterclockwise around the board.

3

If your last sown seed lands in an opponent's pit and brings its total to two or three seeds, capture all the seeds in that pit.

4

Check backward along the opponent's row from that point; any earlier pit that also ends at two or three seeds is captured too, as long as the chain stays unbroken.

5

A move that would leave your opponent with no seeds to sow, when an alternative move exists, is not allowed under the traditional rule.

6

Play continues until one side's row is empty; the player who has captured the most seeds overall wins.