Je ki n je, also spelled Jẹ́ kí ń jẹ (Yoruba for: "Let me eat!"), is played by the Yoruba in southern Nigeria. The following rules were reported from the ancient city of Ilé-Ifẹ̀, which dates back to roughly 500 AD.The game was first described by Jordi Climent Tondo (though incomplete and rather confusing) who learned it in Nigeria.