Achi

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Stage: 2 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

This game is played in Ghana, but stones that were marked for this game in the third century AD have been found near Hadrian's Wall in Northern England.

For two players: each player has 4 counters.
To Start: players take it in turns to place their counters on vacant circles on the board.

Rules

  1. The players take it in turns to move one of their counters.
  2. They may move any of their own counters one step along one of the lines to a vacant circle.
  3. The winner is the first person to get THREE of their counters in a straight line.

Published April 1998.