Make and Oware Game
How to make an Oware board:
1.Remove the lid off an egg carton and paste it
underneath the egg portion of the carton.
2.Cut two separate egg sections and staple one on
each end of the carton.
3.Paint the "game board" with acrylic paints.
4.After the paint has dried you can decorate with African
Figure heads, beads, or use the Kwanzaa symbols.
You can easily staple decorations at the end of the board.
The older artist may want to paint the images inside the
egg cups.
How to play "Oware"
Items needed to play:
-48 small smooth stones or beans
-Egg carton or a 12 cup muffin tin will also work.
-Two players (Play A and Player B)
Objective: To be the player with the most stones in your bank at the
end of the game.
To Play:
1. Place four beans in the bottom of each of the 12 cups.
2.. Play:
Player A picks up all the stones from any cup. Starting with the next cup to the right, drops one stone at a time into each successive cup. After he/she drops the last stone in a cup,
Player A picks up all the stones in THAT cup and continues to drop one in each consecutive cup.
Player A's turn ends when he/she puts the last seed in an empty cup. (Player A has the longest turn first)
Player B then chooses any cup of stones and begins a turn exactly like Player A's. A player scores when he/she drops the last stone in a cup with THREE others (making FOUR stones in a cup). The player then puts all four stones in his/her "bank".
If the player puts a stone in a cup with three others and it is not the last stone, the other player puts the four stones in his/her bank.
The player who gets the next to the last four stones gets the remaining stones on the board. The player who has accumulated the most stones in his/her bank, WINS!
