Tuknanavuhpi

Tuknanavuhpi is a two player abstract strategy board game played by the Hopi people of Arizona and parts of Mexico, traditionally played on stone slabs with etched board patterns and documented as early as 1907 in Stewart Culin's scholarly work on Native American games. Each player uses twenty pieces called pokmoita, meaning animals, typically distinguished by color and made from materials such as maize grains or stones. The game is played on a four by four board with diagonal lines creating forty one intersection points, with each player starting on their own half of the board and only the center point left vacant at setup. The object is to capture all of the opponent's pieces by hopping over them, and the game resembles alquerque and draughts as well as the related Hopi game Tukvnanawopi, the Keres game Aiyawatstani and the African game Kharbaga.