1923.) Notes on a Type of Sedentary Game. ie 
above.! A similar game played in parts of Orissa is known 
as Kdnji-guti. One hundred and forty-five pieces are required 
to play this game. One piece is kept within one depression of 
the central pair, while the other depression of this pair is kept 
empty and 12 pieces are placed within each of the 12 remaining 
depressions. As I gather from my Ooriya servant, the rules of 
six lying on the other side of the central pair belong to the 
other player. During the first run of the play no piece is to be 
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Khasis are generally followed with the important exception 
that none will be able to play with the pieces lying with the 
central pair of depressions, ie. they cannot be taken out of 
these depressions and dropped in the succeeding ones but the 
pieces lying within the central pair can be captured like the 
pieces lying in the others. In the Orissa type the pieces are 
moved from left to right and the player who captures more 
pleces at the end of each game is the winner, and the result of 
one game is not carried over to the next to finish what may be 
called a set 
__ A game of this type is also prevalent in the Madras Pres- 
idency. It is called Omangunta peeta (a plank with holes) in 
Telugu and Palanguli (a plank with holes) in Tamil. and for 
the detailed information about the rules that are followed I am 
thankful to Mr. V. V. Rau of the Bengal Nagpur Railway 
There are fourteen shallow depressions in two rows, seven being 
ineach row. In thecentral depression of each row only one piece 
's placed, while inside each of the rest are placed six, twelve or 
twenty-four pieces. The usual rules of the game are followed 
and the special point to be noted is that like the Orissa game 
none will be able to play with the pieces lying in the central 
pair, and though they may be captured according to the ordi- 
nary rules of the game they will be removed only at the end of 
each game, and the pieces lying in a central depression are to be 
shared equally between the players if each of them in course 
of his play dropped down his last piece in a depression sepa- 
rated from the central one by an empty one or the pieces 
lying in the central depression may belong to none, and in that 
case they will not be removed from their position. If the 
number of pieces lying in a central depression is odd, one will 
left in it and the rest will be equally divided between the 
._.. The Lushai Kuki Clans, p. 39,1912. According to this author a 
Similar game is played in many parts of Africa and is known as ‘ Mancala 
Bao’ or * Warri.’ 

