Oh-Wah-Ree is one of a series of games known as pit and pebble games. They are known more formally as Mancala games after another specific example. The game in general consists of several pits into which pebbles have been placed.There are several variations in play, but most of them have the same basic features. A turn, or lap starts when a player scoops up all of the pebbles in one pit and sows them, one at a time, into pits moving counterclockwise around the board. If the last pebble sowed brings the number of pebbles in that pit to either two or three, then the player captures all of the pebbles in the pit and removes them from the board. Play continues until no moves are possible, at which time the player with the most captures pebbles wins,

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