I recently returned from a wonderful trip to Eastern Africa where I rediscovered a love for board games. The board layout is 4 rows of 8 bowls into each of which 2 playing pieces are placed. There is a larger bowl at each player's end of the board. Pieces are scooped from any starting position on each players 2 rows of 8 bowls and laid one at a time into adjacent bowls along that line.
Attack is only possible on the player's front row.
If the bowl opposite contains any of the other player's pieces they can be taken and play begins again from the beginning of the original row. If there are no pieces to take play continues. If the player's last piece lands in a vacant bowl his turn ends. The objective is to clear all the pieces from the other player's front row or to leave him no bowl on his side with two pieces with which to start. The rules and design are simple but nevertheless make for an exciting game.