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Board size varies from region to region. [1] In Ningxia, the game is played on a 7×8 gridded board using black and white Go stones, 28 stones per player.The game is popular in agricultural communities in Northwestern China, and often played on a board traced out on the ground.
Mancala (Arabic: منقلة manqalah) is a family of two-player turn-based strategy board games played with small stones, beans, or seeds and rows of holes or pits in the earth, a board or other playing surface. The objective is usually to capture all or some set of the opponent's pieces.
Ludus latrunculorum, latrunculi, or simply latrones ("the game of brigands", or "the game of soldiers" from latrunculus, diminutive of latro, mercenary or highwayman) was a two-player strategy board game played throughout the Roman Empire. It is said to resemble chess or draughts, as it is generally accepted to be a game of military tactics ...
Polis (Greek: πόλις, lit. 'city-state') was an ancient Greek board game. One of the earliest known strategy games, polis was a wargame resembling checkers.Its name appears in the Ancient Greek literature from around 450 BC to the 2nd century BC, and it seems to have been widely known in the region, particularly in Athens.
Seven stones game Kids playing Lagori in a Bangalore street. Seven stones (also known by various other names) is a traditional game from the Indian subcontinent involving a ball and a pile of flat stones, generally played between two teams in a large outdoor area.
Alkkagi (알까기) is a game between two players where several stones are placed on a board and the player flicks them with his finger to knock the opponent's stones off the board. A variant of Alkkagi appears in Chinese literature as Tanqi (彈棋 or 彈棊), which was played by emperors from the Han to the Tang dynasties . [ 1 ]
The time of the rains played its game with frogs for pieces [nayadyutair] yellow and green in colour, as if mottled by lac, leapt up on the black field squares. The colours are not those of the two camps, but mean that the frogs have two colours, yellow and green. Chaturanga may also have much older roots, dating back 5,000 years.
A study published in 2024 analysed the possibilities for game-play in detail and showed that the mechanism for moving pieces around the board was probably "marble guessing". This works by one player putting some marbles in their fist and the other player guessing how many were hidden - the result would give the number of spaces to be moved ...