"Tchuka Ruma, a mancala game, was first described as Tchouka by the French mathematician Henri-Auguste Delannoy (1833-1915) in 1895. He said that his article is from his correspondence with \u00C9douard Lucas (1842-1891), another famous French mathematician and the inventor of Dots-and-Boxes. Tchuka Ruma might be inspired by Dakon, but seems to be an invention of \u00C9douard Lucas. Probably he found an ethnographic report from Indonesia and then changed the rules of Dakon so that it would fit his idea of a mathematical recreation."@en . . "Tchuka Ruma, a mancala game, was first described as Tchouka by the French mathematician Henri-Auguste Delannoy (1833-1915) in 1895. He said that his article is from his correspondence with \u00C9douard Lucas (1842-1891), another famous French mathematician and the inventor of Dots-and-Boxes. The origin of the game is not well known. In 1929, Andr\u00E9 Sainte-Lague (1882-1959) claimed in his \"Geometrie de Situation et Jeux\" that the game is Russian. Sainte-Lague also wrote an unpublished work on Tchuka Ruma, which seems to be lost. Popova and Deledicq speculated in 1977 that the game might be Paleosiberian or Inuit. However, no such game has ever been described to be known by any ethnic group in Russia and these claims must therefore dismissed. Rumah means \"house\" in Malay and in Indonesian, while the etymology of chuka in Malay is from Sanskrit chukra, the vinegar made from Tamarind seeds. These seeds are often used as counters in South Indian mancala games. The Indonesian game of Dakon has very similar rules. The only differences are that Tchuka Ruma is a solitaire (Dakon is a two-person game) played on just one row (Dakon has two rows). However, no game with exactly the same rules has been ever found in Indonesia despite long years of intense ethnographic research. Tchuka Ruma might be inspired by Dakon, but seems to be an invention of \u00C9douard Lucas. Probably he found an ethnographic report from Indonesia and then changed the rules of Dakon so that it would fit his idea of a mathematical recreation."@en . . "Tchuka Ruma"@en . . .