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  2. Mancala - Wikipedia

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    Mancala. Bao players in Mozambique. 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.

  3. Tafl games - Wikipedia

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    The term tafl (pronounced; Old Norse for 'table') [4] [5] is the original Norse name of the game.. Hnefatafl (roughly , [5] plausibly realised as [n̥ɛvatavl]), became the preferred term for the game in Scandinavia by the end of the Viking Age, to distinguish it from other board games, such as Skáktafl (), Kvatrutafl and Halatafl (), as these became known. [2]

  4. Crokinole - Wikipedia

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    Board dimensions vary with a playing surface typically of polished wood or laminate approximately 26 inches (660 mm) in diameter. The arrangement is 3 concentric rings worth 5, 10, and 15 points as you move in from the outside. There is a shallow 20-point hole at the centre. [1] The inner 15-point ring is guarded with 8 small bumpers or posts.

  5. Fidchell - Wikipedia

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    4 years and up. Medium complexity, highly strategic. Fidchell (Old Irish pronunciation: [ˈfʲiðʲxʲel͈]) or gwyddbwyll (in Welsh, pronounced [ˈɡwɨ̞ðbʊɨ̯ɬ, ˈɡwɪðbʊi̯ɬ]) was a board game popular among the ancient Celts. Fidchell was played between two people who moved an equal number of pieces across a board; the board shared ...

  6. Backgammon - Wikipedia

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    Irish, Nard. Origin: = 17th-century England. Descended from: Irish. Backgammon is a two-player board game played with counters and dice on tables boards. It is the most widespread Western member of the large family of tables games, whose ancestors date back nearly 5,000 years to the regions of Mesopotamia and Persia.

  7. Aggravation (board game) - Wikipedia

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    Skills. Strategy, probability. Aggravation is a board game for up to four players and later versions for up to six players, whose object is to be the first player to have all four playing pieces (usually represented by marbles) reach the player's home section of the board. The game's name comes from the action of capturing an opponent's piece ...

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