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Igisoro is a two player game in the mancala family. This variant is played primarily by the Tutsi (also known as Abatutsi or Batutsi) in Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda. Igisoro, like Omweso, is played with an 4×8 board (igisoro) of pits (icúba) and 64 seeds. A player's territory is the two rows of pits closest to them. According to Alexandre Kimenyi, California State University at Sacramento, cow vocabulary is metaphorically used in Igisoro: players try to capture each other's "cows" (inká) and a board position with many singletons are known as "a line of calves" (urunyána).

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  • Igisoro is a two player game in the mancala family. This variant is played primarily by the Tutsi (also known as Abatutsi or Batutsi) in Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda. Igisoro, like Omweso, is played with an 4×8 board (igisoro) of pits (icúba) and 64 seeds. A player's territory is the two rows of pits closest to them. According to Alexandre Kimenyi, California State University at Sacramento, cow vocabulary is metaphorically used in Igisoro: players try to capture each other's "cows" (inká) and a board position with many singletons are known as "a line of calves" (urunyána).
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  • Igisoro is a two player game in the mancala family. This variant is played primarily by the Tutsi (also known as Abatutsi or Batutsi) in Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda. Igisoro, like Omweso, is played with an 4×8 board (igisoro) of pits (icúba) and 64 seeds. A player's territory is the two rows of pits closest to them. According to Alexandre Kimenyi, California State University at Sacramento, cow vocabulary is metaphorically used in Igisoro: players try to capture each other's "cows" (inká) and a board position with many singletons are known as "a line of calves" (urunyána). Boards are carved (there are even game tables) or holes in the ground are used. Igisoro masters do never outwardly count the seeds in a pit in plotting a move and a player who counts with his finger would be the subject of much ridicule. Some experts play blindfolded and may even play multiple opponents simultaneously. The game was promoted by the "Ministère de la Jeunesse et des Sports in Rwanda", which held an Igisoro competition in 1983. In December 2007, another Igisoro tournament was organized by Umurage (a culture center of Rwandian migrants) in Montreal, Canada. In 2008, Antoine Nzeyimana from the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) in Rwanda won US$600 for his Igisoro gadget submitted to the inaugural Google East Africa Gadget Competition. It isn't unusual to cheat the opponent, which is known as gukanga ("to betray").
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