page_title: Konane
section_title: Equipment
hierarchical_section_title: Konane / Equipment
caption_attribution_description: English: Jordan Suapaia, 6, plays a game he describes as Hawaiian checkers, or Konane. It is a game of strategy similar to checkers and widely believed by historians to be a game that was used as a tool to instruct warriors. The object of the game is not so much to take your opponents papumu, or gamestones, than it is to isolate your opponents papumu and prevent your opponent from being able to make a move.
context_page_description: Kōnane is a two-player strategy board game from Hawaii. It was invented by the ancient Hawaiian Polynesians. The game is played on a rectangular board. It begins with black and white counters filling the board in an alternating pattern. Players then hop over one another's pieces, capturing them similar to checkers. The first player unable to capture is the loser; their opponent is the winner.
  Before contact with Europeans, the game was played using small pieces of white coral and black lava on a large carved rock which doubled as both board and table. The Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park has one of these stone gameboards on its premises.
  The game is somewhat similar to draughts. Pieces hop over one another when capturing; however, the similarities end there. In draughts, one player's pieces are initially set up on one side of the board opposite the other player's pieces. In Kōnane, both players' pieces are intermixed in a checkered pattern of black and white occupying every square of the board. Furthermore, in Kōnane all moves are capturing moves, captures are made in an orthogonal direction, and in a multiple-capture move the capturing piece may not change direction.
context_section_description: The game is played on a rectangular or square board. Pieces can be laid out in the beginning of the game in an alternating checkerboard pattern of two colors on top of a table, on the ground, or on any flat surface.  Furthermore, the game can be generalized to any size geometrically. In practice, square Kōnane boards can range from 6×6 to over 14×14. Traditional rectangular board dimensions include 9×13, 14×17, and 13×20.
caption: Kōnane played with stones on a wooden board
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