单词 | wari |
释义 | warin. A game for two players, originally West African but now also popular in the Caribbean, and played on a rectangular board with rows of hollows, in which the object is to capture more pieces than one's opponent. Cf. oware n.Wari is a variation of the game of mancala: see mancala n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > other board games > [noun] > others quek1376 quek-board1477 draughtsc1540 goose1597 mancala1687 pachisi1801 Chinese chequers1840 go1840 shogi1858 wari1866 wei ch'i1871 gobang1875 crokinole1885 Kono1895 salta1901 Snakes and Ladders1907 pegity1925 oware1929 monopoly1934 Scrabble1950 morabaraba1953 Chutes and Ladders1955 pentominos1975 Trivial Pursuit1982 1866 Jrnl. Anthropol. Soc. 4 p. lxxxiii They [sc. the Gallinas people] play various games, the principal one being called by them warri, but it is common to nearly all parts of Africa under different names... They have many other games besides warri. 1927 G. T. Bennett in R. S. Rattray Relig. & Art in Ashanti xxxii. 382 Wari..is a game for two players using..48 pebbles and a board hollowed out into two parallel rows of six cups. 1975 Observer 30 Nov. (Colour Suppl.) 40/2 Groups of men [in Bridgetown] play ‘warri’, an old game brought to Barbados from Africa. 2020 @slimatic268 6 June in twitter.com (accessed 16 Sept. 2020) I've been getting blows playing Wari with a computer on impossible, I'm getting frustrated. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1866 |
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