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Game NightFamily Reunion
O
PLAYERS
2
DIFFICULTY
SETTING
Indoor
MATERIALS
MEASUREMENTS

Board has 2 rows of 6 pits, 4 seeds placed in each pit at the start

HOW TO PLAY
1

Sit across from your opponent with the board between you, each player owning the row of pits closest to them.

2

On your turn, scoop all the seeds from one of your own pits and drop one seed into each pit going counterclockwise around the board.

3

If your last seed lands in an opponent's pit that then holds two or three seeds, capture every seed in that pit.

4

Keep checking backward from your last dropped seed; if the pit before it is also an opponent's pit with two or three seeds, capture those too.

5

Continue taking turns until one side's pits are all empty, then each player counts their captured seeds.

6

The player with the most captured seeds when the game ends wins the match.