The Awari Oracle was a web frontend of a remote database containing the eventual outcome of all the 889,063,398,406 positions that can occur during a game of Awari, a variant of Oware. The Awari rules were invented by the computer scientists Victor Allis, Maarten van der Meulen, and H. Jaap van den Herik in 1991. They differ from Oware as follows: