Ancient Pebble Game - OWARE, Mancala, Choro, Guithi , Mankaley

Includes game board that folds in half with handles, instructions, 43 “pebbles” by a company called Giraffe. Back of case scratched as shown in photo. This game is piece of tradition known by many different names: Oril/Mancala/Oware… is a generic name for 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. Versions of the game date back to the 7th century and evidence suggests the game existed in Ancient Egypt. It is among the oldest known games to still be widely played today. Recent studies of mancala rules have given insight into the distribution of mancala. This distribution has been linked to migration routes, which may go back several hundred years.