Oware





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Oware is a mancala game played at the tournament level in Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean. Players alternate taking one cup and sowing the seeds one at a time into succeeding cups; the home cups are skipped during sowing. Seeds are captured when the last seed sown is in an opponent's cup and the total number of seeds in that cup is now 2 or 3; then the seeds from that cup are won, and all consecutive prior cups on the opponent's side of size 2 or 3 are won as well. In this micro version of the game, to be won a cup must contain exactly 1 seed.