owaren.
/əˈwɑːri/, U.S. /əˈwɑri/, West African English /ɔˈwari/ A board game, originally played in West Africa, consisting of small balls passed into the holes of an oblong draughtboard or table; = wari n.
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1929 Man 29 124 Awari is discussed at somewhat greater length, but few details of the play are proffered.
1949 Scripta Mathematica 15 159 Oware is played with great skill—particularly by illiterates—but there is no accepted theory of how it should be played.
1957 Ghana Museum & Monuments Calendar Nov. (heading) The Oware is a variant of a game which is..wide spread in Africa.
1960 R. C. Bell Board & Table Games 120 Awari is a masculine pastime though women occasionally play... Making Awari boards involves spiritual danger, and only old men who have lost a wife are allowed to make them.
1971 A. Christian Facets Ghanaian Culture 31 The Ghanaian game of oware is played by two people in opposition.
1992 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald Amer. 8 Nov. d5/2 Volunteers taught onlookers how to play oware, a game using 14 cups and 30 seeds. It's fast-moving, competitive and easy to learn.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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