Vietnam
Bầu Cua Tôm Cá
Bet on six symbols as three dice determine your fate in this Tết classic.
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Vietnam
Ô Ăn Quan
Sow seeds across the board and capture your opponent's pits in this Vietnamese mancala.
Vietnam
Tiến Lên
Race to empty your hand before your opponents in Vietnam's most beloved card game.
West Africa
Oware
The ancient Akan strategy game of sowing, capturing, and counting - played for 7,000 years.
West Africa
Yoté
Drop, move, and jump - a fast West African capture game where one strike can take two pieces.
Ancient Egypt
Senet
Race your pieces through the houses of the afterlife in Egypt's 5,000-year-old game of fate.
Catalonia
Truc
Three cards, three tricks, one shouted word - the Catalan bluffing duel that conquered two continents.
Aztec Mesoamerica
Patolli
Race your pieces around a sacred cross-shaped board using bean dice in this ancient Aztec game.
Maya Mesoamerica
Puluc
Race 5 pieces across 11 spaces, capturing enemies as prisoners, in this ancient Maya stick-dice game.
South India
Pallanguzhi
Sow shells counter-clockwise and capture on 4 in this ancient Tamil mancala.
Madagascar
Fanorona
Capture all enemy pieces using unique approach and withdrawal moves in this ancient Madagascan strategy game.
Norse / Viking Age
Hnefatafl
Escort the King to a corner or capture him - an asymmetric Viking war game played across Scandinavia from 400–1000 AD.
China
Hong Kong Mahjong
Build 4 sets and a pair from 136 tiles in the classic Cantonese tile game. Pung, Chow, Kong, and win with fan scoring.
Mughal India
Ganjifa
Play all 96 hand-painted circular cards in this ancient Mughal trick-taking game - trump, follow suit, and claim 24 tricks.
Ancient Rome
Ludus Latrunculorum
The Roman "Game of Mercenaries" - capture enemy pieces by sandwiching them on a grid, with a powerful Dux leading each side.
Indian Subcontinent
Pachisi
Race four pieces around a Mughal cross-board using cowrie-shell dice - the ancestor of Ludo and Parcheesi.
Xinjiang, China
Xinjiang Fangqi
Form 2x2 squares of stones to capture enemy pieces in this ancient Silk Road strategy game from Xinjiang.
Latin America
Cachos
Shake the cup, make your bid, call the bluff - a classic Latin American Dudo-style dice game.
Philippines
Filipino Dama
Capture forward and backward, crown your Dama to slide the full diagonal - Philippine draughts with a tactical twist.
Korea
Yut Nori
Korea's beloved Lunar New Year race game — throw four wooden sticks and race your horses around the board.
Ecuador
Cuarenta
Capture pairs and sequences with a 40-card Spanish deck in Ecuador's beloved national card game.
Italy
Scopa
Sweep the table in Italy's classic capture game — match or sum to your card, and chase the prized settebello.
Russia
Durak
Attack and defend with a trump suit in Russia's favourite card game — don't be the last one left holding cards, the "fool."
Nepal
Bagh-Chal
Nepal's national "tigers and goats" game — trap 4 hunting tigers with 20 goats, or hunt the goats down. Asymmetric strategy on a 5×5 board.
Southern Africa
Morabaraba
The Sotho and Tswana "mill" game — place 12 cows, build mills of three to shoot your rival's herd, then move and fly. Strategy on a 24-point board with corner diagonals.
Hawaii
Kōnane
The Hawaiian stone-jumping game on a papamū board — jump black lava and white coral pebbles to capture, and win by making the last move. No draws.
Indonesia
Surakarta
The Javanese loop-capture game on a 6×6 board — slide your pieces around the signature corner loops to strike from behind, and capture all twelve enemy pieces to win.
Māori (Aotearoa)
Mū Tōrere
The Māori eight-pointed-star game of Aotearoa New Zealand — slide your four pieces around the kewai and pūtahi, mind the centre rule, and trap your opponent with no move to win.
China
Dou Shou Qi
China's "Jungle" — eight ranked animals from elephant to rat cross a board split by two rivers. The rat swims and fells the elephant, lions and tigers leap the water, and you win by storming the enemy den.
Zimbabwe
Tsoro Yematatu
The Shona three-in-a-row game — place three seeds on a seven-point triangle, then slide and jump to line up three on one of the five drawn lines. Simple to learn, sharply tactical.
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