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A wooden mancala board.. Layli Goobalay (or Layli Goobaly) is a board game played in parts of Somalia.It is a variant of the classical count and capture game mancala (from the Arabic word naqala, meaning literally "to move"), which is one of the oldest two-player strategy board games played throughout the world.
Egal International Airport (IATA: HGA, ICAO: HCMH), (Somali: Madaarka Caalamiga ee Cigaal Arabic: مطار عقال الدولي) is an airport in Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, named after Somaliland's second president Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal, the airport underwent major renovations in 2012–2013. [2]
The board used for shax.Pieces are placed on the intersections and players try to get three in a row. Shax (pronounced /shah/), also known as jar, djelga [citation needed] or mororova [citation needed] [clarification needed] in some areas, is a board game played in the Horn of Africa, particularly in Somalia.
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Afrikan tähti ([ˈɑfrikɑn ˈtæhti]; Finnish for 'Star of Africa'), known in Swedish as Den försvunna diamanten ('The Missing Diamond') or Afrikas stjärna [1] ('The Star of Africa'), is a Finnish board game designed by Kari Mannerla originally in 1951. It has been one of the most popular board games in the Nordic countries for decades. [2]
In 1952 Murray published A History of Board Games other than Chess.His work there on other games has received some criticism. Notably, he was skeptical of the consensus history of the game Go; he wrote that weiqi (the Chinese term for Go) dated to 1000 AD at the earliest, and wrote that Chinese historians had exaggerated the antiquity of the game as well as their inventions in general.
Go — The International Travel Game, later Travel Go, is a family board game, based on international travel, which was manufactured by Waddingtons Ltd from 1961 onwards. . The objective of the game is to travel the world by air, sea, rail and road, collect a predetermined number of souvenirs from each city visited, and to return to the starting point
Turup, also known as arpaa turup, is a card game played widely in Northeast Africa. In Somalia , it involves four players, usually using a 144-card pack made up 4 identical 36-card packs. Game play