Toguz Korgool
Toguz korgool ( ky, тогуз коргоол - "nine sheep droppings") or togyzkumalak ( kz, тоғыз құмалақ), is a two-player game in the mancala family that is played in Central Asia. Board The game is played on a board with two rows of nine holes. There are two "kazna" between these rows, which are used to collect captured stones of each user, separately. At the beginning there are nine stones in each hole, except the kazna, which are empty, so players need a total of 162 stones. Game start The board sides are labeled as black and white. The player sitting on the white side starts the game. Game play Players move alternately. A move consists of taking stones from a hole and distributing them to other holes. On his/her turn, a player takes all the stones of one of his holes, which is not a tuz (see below), and distributes them anticlockwise, one by one, into the following holes. The first stone must be dropped into the hole which was just emptied. However, ...
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