Hello, dear friends and brothers hope all is well with you all. Today in steem for betterlife am going to share with you all my favorite board game that is being organized by @goodybest. Read along as I share with you my favorite board game.

Rika Diani Dasopang

What Is Your Favorite Board Game

There are numerous games I play but I find this particular game called Ayo interesting;

African Wood puzzle or Popularly know as Ayo are commonly played in the southern west of Nigeria and it’s one of my favorite game played by two persons. It’s called “Game of the intellectual” and of the smart mind. This game requires a lot of quantitative reasoning and skill too. Ayo game is played with a wooden carved box containing twelve (12)holes and eight (6)holes each which consist of the two players. Fourthyeight (48)seeds and eight (8)seeds each holes. I could remember when during my childhood days I played this game every evening whenever am back from school. There are time when we weren’t able to get hold of the Ayo to play from our parents but as little as we were we decide to create this Ayo game on a loamy soil making 12 twelve holes for two players with concrete stones.it was fun playing it this way too.

In this game called “Ayo” which is commonly known by the Yoruba but widely spread across Africans is played by two players and it runs counter-clockwise.First player begins by picking up all of the first four seed from one of their holes and start running them by dropping counter clockwise and the second player does the same starting from their own side. If the seeds from any of the players ends in a hole with eight (8)Ayo seeds on the opponent’s side, the player captures all those seeds in one particular hole. So when this happens the winning one “house” removes the seeds from the game.

So players take turns until the seeds are exhausted if one of the player records four straight wins, they become the winner and the opponent quits thereby letting a new player to take over.I so much love this game because it requires deep thoughts, lots of brain power and good strategy to move seeds with ultimate aim to win.

And today Ayo game has been adopted by the world and fondly called ‘Awele’ by the westerns.

Why Do You Like The Game?

Why I love the game is because, it’s a game of the mind and strategy that often involves feeding an opponent’s side to give a good chance at taking their seeds which brings cheers to the mind as a winner. The game is fun to play with especially with two persons.

Do You Like Playing It Alone Or With Friends?

Definitely Ayo game is a game of two and I enjoy playing this game with friends physically than online because it involves gisting, cracking of jokes while playing the game.

Am inviting @chiomzy810, @iranwandedy and @mmmmkkkk311 to share theirs with the community.

THANKS.