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Barbados Warri is one of two mancala games played on Barbados. The game is also called English Wari. It is a variant of Oware, which is played in Nigeria. The other mancala game known on Barbados is Round-and-Round Warri or "French Wari". In 2001, Coline Depardine used the rules to Barbados Warri in her research on evolutionary computation. Barbados Warri is traditionally played with "horse nickars" on wooden boards, whose holes have sometimes deep groves shaped by decades of intensive play.

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  • Barbados Warri is one of two mancala games played on Barbados. The game is also called English Wari. It is a variant of Oware, which is played in Nigeria. The other mancala game known on Barbados is Round-and-Round Warri or "French Wari". In 2001, Coline Depardine used the rules to Barbados Warri in her research on evolutionary computation. Barbados Warri is traditionally played with "horse nickars" on wooden boards, whose holes have sometimes deep groves shaped by decades of intensive play.
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  • Barbados Warri is one of two mancala games played on Barbados. The game is also called English Wari. It is a variant of Oware, which is played in Nigeria. The other mancala game known on Barbados is Round-and-Round Warri or "French Wari". The game is played in tournaments by adult men who are famous for their expertise. The best players were in the late 1990s William "Ossie" Haddock, Laurie Greaves, and Frederick "The Lord Jesus" Jackman. Other masters are Ethelred Phillips and Benjamin White. Barbados Warri is no longer as popular as it used to be, but the game is promoted by William Lee Farum-Badley, a Venezuelan born retired economist, who manufacturess boards at his small “factory” in his St. James, Barbados home and sells them over the internet. In 2001, Coline Depardine used the rules to Barbados Warri in her research on evolutionary computation. Barbados Warri is traditionally played with "horse nickars" on wooden boards, whose holes have sometimes deep groves shaped by decades of intensive play.
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