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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A game played on a board containing two or more rows of cup-shaped holes in which pebbles are placed and transferred from hole to hole according to certain rules.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun games, board games A generic name applied to various board games in which a move consists of emptying a pit and then its contents are sown one by one into ensuing pits
  • noun games A synonym for Kalah, a mancala game invented in the USA in 1940

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