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a game they must cross this same space on the retm-n to at least cue 

 count on the other side.* Below are the rules of the game. 



Rules for Playing. 



1. The opponents in the game face each other, both start from the 

 south wide space, and move their counting sticlis around the stone circle 

 in opposite directions, each playing as his turn comes. 



2. Should the counts of two opponents be such that their counting 

 sticks would occupy the same space, the one who played last takes up his 

 opponent's counting stick and throws it back to the starting point. Its 

 owner must begin the game anew, as all the points he has previously 

 made are lost. 



3. Should the counts of any player be such as to place his counting 

 stick in either of the wide spaces, designated "water," he looses all the 

 points he has made, his counting stick is thi'own back to the starting 

 place, and he must begin again. 



Rules for counting the points, decided by the face of the sticks that are 

 up after they have fallen (the faces according to color will be designated 

 white, black, green, or red). 



1. Two white plus one red plus one black, two points. 



2. Three red plus one black and all the sticks straight and parallel. 

 5 points. 



3. Three white plus one green. 10 points. 



4. Three red plus one green, 13 points. 



5. Three white phis one black, 13 points. 



6. Three red plus one black, 20 points. 



7. Three red, one crossing the other two, plus one black, 2(5 points. 



8. Three white plus one black laying across the others, 39 points. 



9. Three red. one crossing the other tv/o, plus one black crossing two 

 red ones (in this game each cross counts 13 points), 52 points. 



10. One hundred and si.xty-four continuous points or four game-counts 

 constitute a game. 



*The winner of the game-count keeps on playing, retaining the extra points he has 

 gained; his opponents begin anew. They, however, do n-ot lose any game-counts pre 

 viously gained in the game. 



