Awale classic (in english)

The Awale is an old African strategy game that is played with 2. It is known by many names depending on the region: Awale, Awari, Oware, Ayo, Golem ...

It is played with a game board containing 12 squares and 48 seeds. Each player has 6 squares in front of him containing 4 seeds initially. Players must in turn pick all the seeds of one of their squares and distribute them one by one on the following squares, their squares then those of their opponent. If a player puts the last seed in an opponent square and this squares contains 2 or 3 seeds, then he may pick up seeds. The game continues until all the seeds are picked, and the winner is the one who picked the most seeds,

Awale classic is an android program that allows you to play this game on a smartphone, at two, or alone, the smartphone ensuring game of the other player.

The game rules are accurately detailed in the online help that is also provided on this site. There are many variants of these rules according to where the game is played. We took as a basis the rules said Côte d'Ivoire rules and called "Abapa" that seem most used, and have added options to play with slightly different rules, hoping that it will allow players to play with rules which they are accustomed.

For maximum realism, you will not see on your screen seed counts of squares, but images of a game handmade with seeds. As in a real game you can easily find squares seeds counts when their number is limited, but not when there are many. However, for players who prefer to see the counts displayed, an option and a command allow to display the accounts in full or part.

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