Zohn Ahl

How to play

A Kiowa race game of the Great Plains, run with four stave dice around a ring of forty marks. Cast the staves and drive both your markers a full circuit — but land square in the dry creek on the far side and you tumble all the way back to the start.

Rules

  • Press Cast staves to throw four two-sided staves; the number of marked faces up is your move (0 up counts as a cast of 5, and earns another throw).
  • Tap a highlighted marker to advance it that many holes around the ring.
  • Land exactly on the creek hole at the halfway mark and that marker washes all the way back to the start.
  • First player to bring both markers all the way home wins.

Tips

The only real danger is landing exactly on the creek at the halfway mark — it sends that marker all the way back. When your count would drop a marker squarely in the creek, spend the throw on your other marker instead.