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Omweso

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PLAYERS
2
DIFFICULTY
SETTING
Indoor
MATERIALS
MEASUREMENTS

Board with four rows of eight pits, each player controlling the two rows nearest them.

HOW TO PLAY
1

Start with four seeds in every pit and divide the board into two halves, one per player.

2

On your turn, choose a pit on your side and sow its seeds one at a time into successive pits, usually moving along your near row and back along your far row.

3

If your last seed lands in an opponent's pit that now holds two or three seeds, capture those seeds and remove them from play.

4

After a capture, you may continue sowing from a newly full pit if the rules your group follows allow chained captures.

5

Players alternate turns, always sowing from their own side, until one side has no legal move.

6

The player who has captured the most seeds when the game ends is the winner.