Luuth
Luuth is played by the Nuer in South Sudan and in the far west of Ethiopia . This variant of Mancala is a leisure activity for men of all ages. Her unusual moves are reminiscent of the checkers game .
Luuth was first described in 1972 by the British ethnologist Richard Pankhurst (as Game 100 ), who learned it from the student James Tut in Addis Ababa .
Rules of the game
The game board consists of two by seven game hollows, which are called wang (dt .: eyes ). At the beginning there are four seeds in each well. Each player has a row of hollows.
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The first player begins the game by picking up the contents of any well in his row. When he took the contents of the middle trough, he places it in a different or opposing their own depression. If he took the contents of another well, he places them in a different well, except the one directly opposite.
Then the players take turns to distribute the contents of one of their wells in groups of four clockwise or counterclockwise to the following wells.
- If the hollow only contained a group of four, it may only be played in the adjacent hollow on your own side of the board.
- If the trough contained several groups of four, it can be distributed on both sides of the board.
If the last group falls into an empty trough of their own, the player beats the contents of the opposing trough opposite, provided that it is full. The beaten seeds are removed from the board. After capturing the player may make another move.
The game ends when a player can no longer move.
The player who caught the most seeds wins the game. The seeds that are still on the board at the end of the game are not counted.
literature
- Pankhurst, R .: Gabata and Related Board Games of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa . In: Ethiopia Observer 1971; 14 (3): 204.
Web links
- Luuth (Wiki Manqala)