Adji kui II
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Adji kui
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| Played in: Cuba |
| One cycle |
| Multiple lap |
| Holes captured between games |
| 6 holes per row |
| Two rows |
Adji kui is the name of at least two Cuban mancala games from the area close to Matanzas. It was found by Ruth Magalys Wilson Ferrer in the early 1990s.
They were played only by a few families of Arará origin (not to be confused with the Brazilian Arara people), who descended from the Fon, Ewe, Mina, Popo and other peoples of the Benin and Togo coast in Western Africa.
Here are the rules of one of them, which is quite close to hoyito.
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Rules
At the beginning there are four seeds or pebbles in each of the six holes a player controls.
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| Initial position |
On his turn a player takes the contents of any of his holes containing more than one seed and sows them counterclockwise, one at a time, in the following holes using multiple lap sowing.
If the last seed of a lap is sown in a hole that belongs to the opponent, which then contains four seeds, its contents are captured, and the move is over.
If, on his turn, a player has only empty holes, his turn passes
The game ends when only 8 seeds remain in play. Each player takes the ones on his or her holes.
Match Rules
Once a game is over a next one is started, but:
- Each player fills as many holes on his side as he can with four seeds into each.
- If after filling all the holes on his side a player still has seeds, he can "buy" holes on the opponent's side, putting four seeds on each. In the next game these holes belong to him, so only him can start from them but only the opponent can capture on them.
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| Initial position after a game ended at 16-32 for South. Clearer holes belong to North. Darker holes belong to South. |
See also
References
- Wilson Ferrer, R. M.
- (1991) El maravilloso mundo de las piedras y los agujeros, Santiago de Cuba: Centro Cultural Africano "Fernando Ortiz".
- Wilson Ferrer, R. M.
- (2006) Re: Adji kui, email to Bautista i Roca, V (viktor@drac.com), 29 Sep.
Personal references
- Bautista i Roca, Víktor
- Personal communication from Ruth Wilson Ferrer during the colloquium about mancala games held in Fribourg, Switzerland, at the beginning of September 2006.
