Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. 
Fig. 1. 
I.— Shows the position of the pieces at the commencement of the game. The 
privilege of playing first is, as is iisual in these games, left to agree- 
ment or chance, being considered of no great importance. In subse- 
quent games, however, the winner of the first contest takes the lead. 
II — Ila. — We will assume that P starts. Two courses are open to him. He 
may take the two pieces o^xt of hole 6-6 and drop them in 6-7 and 6-8 
(Fig. 1, II), or pick up the two pieces in a-6 and distribute them in 
6-7 and 6-8 (Fig. 1, Ila). Only at the beginning of a game is it 
permitted to move pieces from the outer to the inner row in this 
manner. In the game under description P makes move II. 
III. — Q takes the two pieces in c-9 and drops them in c-8 and c-7. He 
thereby, as already explained, captures the three pieces in 6-7 and a-7 
and distributes these in c-6, c-5 and c-4. 
IV. — P picks up the two pieces in 5-3 and drops them in 6-4 and 6-5. As 6-5 
was already occupied he by this move captures the three pieces in e-5 
and (7,-5 (Fig. 1, IV 1), and distributes them in 6-6, 6-7 and 6-8. He 
takes the five pieces in c-8 and d-8 (Fig. 1, IV 2) and distributes them 
in 6-9, 6-10, 6-11, 6-12 and a-12 ; picks up the three pieces in a-12 and 
drops them, one at a time, into a-11, a-10 and a-9 (Fig. 1, IV 3) ; takes 
the three pieces in a-9 and distributes them in a-8, a-7 and a-6 ; takes 
up the three pieces in a-6 and drops them in a-5, a-4 and a-3 ; picks 
up the three pieces in a-3 and distributes them in a-2, a-1 and 6-1 ; 
picks up the three pieces in 6 1 and distributes them in 6-2, 6-3 and 
6-4. He captures the three pieces in c-4 and d-4 (Fig. 1, IV 3) and 
distributes them in 6-5, 6-6 and 6-7 (Fig. 1, IV 4) ; captures the five 
pieces in c-7 and d-1 (Fig. 1, IV 4) and drops them in 6-8, 6-9, 6-10, 
6-11 and 6-12 ; captures the four pieces in c-12 and d-12 (Fig. 1, IV 5) 
and distributes them in a-12, a-11, a-10 and a-9 (Fig. 1, IV 6). The 
dropping of a "last man" into the now empty hole a-9 brings his move 
to an end. 
