Tanzanian Bao la Kiswahili Coastal Match
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PLAYERS
2
DIFFICULTY
SETTING
Both
MATERIALS
- A carved wooden board with four rows of pits
- 64 small seeds
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.