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Twenty squares

Against the computer · Medium

You are playing: The Babylonian tablet

You5 waiting · 0 on the board · 0 of 5 off
Computer5 waiting · 0 on the board · 0 of 5 off

Your turn: throw the sticks.

Way to play
Way to play

No Egyptian rules have survived; these are "Sawah rules", a modern reconstruction with its sources on the rules page.