Although Bawo/Bao has a rather simlpe rules-system of counting and capturing, the constant application of the rules is quite confusing for beginners.

Serials 2k 7.1. Although Bawo/Bao has a rather simlpe rules-system of counting and capturing, the constant application of the rules is quite confusing for beginners. It uses a 4x8 board and 64 seeds, with two seeds for every playable hole. The object of the game is to empty your opponent's front row, or deprive him of any legal moves, while still protecting your own front row. When I was in Malawi in the year 1999, I asked some of my Malawian friends (Assan, Mwase and Temba) to help me writing down the bawo-rules.

Microsoft Press Adaptive Code Via C# more. I overworked them recently and I still think this is a very acurate and compressed (two pages) instruction leaflet that is easy to print out and use while playing: The Malawian Bawo rules can also be found on: Two sites supply the rules for Bao (the only major difference to Bawo is the amount of seeds in the house at the beginning of the game: Bao is 6, Bawo 8 or 10): and On the following page you can test if you understood the rules, although I would recommend to use one of the softwares in the to test your understanding.