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Tanzanian Bao la Kiswahili Coastal Match

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PLAYERS
2
DIFFICULTY
SETTING
Both
MATERIALS
HOW TO PLAY
1

Players fill their front row pits with an opening arrangement of seeds, following a house rule pattern.

2

Sow seeds one at a time from a chosen pit, moving around the board in the correct direction.

3

Capturing happens when your final seed lands in an opponent's pit holding an even number of seeds.

4

Captured seeds are removed and tallied as points for the capturing player.

5

The game ends when a player cannot move; the player with the most captured seeds wins.