Aw-li On-nam Ot-tjin

Aw-li On-nam Ot-tjin, often shortened to Otjin, is a traditional mancala game played by the Penihing people of Borneo. It is played on a board of two rows of ten holes, with each of the two players owning one row. At the start every hole holds the same number of seeds, usually three, though two to five are allowed. On a turn a player lifts all the seeds from one of their own holes and sows them one at a time counterclockwise. If the final seed lands in a hole that then holds exactly the starting number of seeds, the player captures those seeds, a capture traditionally called fishing. When one player can no longer move, the opponent takes all the seeds left on the board, and whoever has captured the most seeds wins. The rules were first written down by the Norwegian ethnographer Carl Sofus Lumholtz. Despite its Bornean origin, Otjin resembles African mancalas such as Ba-awa from Ghana and differs from most Asian mancalas.