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Igisoro


Igisoro is a two-player game of the mancala family. It is a variant of the Omweso game of the Baganda people (Uganda), and it is played primarily in Burundi and Rwanda. Igisoro, like Omweso and other mancalas from Eastern Africa such as Bao, is played with an 4×8 board of pits and 64 seeds. A player's territory is the two rows of pits closest to them.

The starting position is shown below; Each player starts with 4 seeds in each pit in the back row of their territory. However, any or both players may decide to start by seeds in fore row, or some seeds in fore and other in back row depending on the wish of the player.

On his turn, a player chooses a pit containing seeds in their territory and sows them placing one seed in each pit as s/he moves counter-clockwise around his territory. The board below shows the state after the first player chose to move the seeds from the pit highlighted in yellow.

At the end of a turn, there are two ways in which the players turn may continue:

Only for a direct pick or catch, a player starting from, or arriving at the pits highlighted in yellow below may choose to move counter-clockwise. When s/he starts from any other pit, s/he may only move counter-clockwise.

The game is over and a player has lost when he or she can not sow any of his or her seeds.


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