How to play Ayo Arena

The goal

Ayo (Oware) for start.ng, rebuilt as a three.js 3D game: a carved wooden board with 48 seeds that physically fly between pits, and a ladder of ever-smarter rivals.

Controls

• The board.

• Two rows of 6 pits, 4 seeds in each. Your row is the one

• closest to you

• (the left column on a phone). The big trays at the ends hold captured seeds; yours is the one on your side.

• Your move.

• Tap one of your

• glowing

• pits. You lift every seed in it and drop them one by one into the next pits, going

What Ayo Arena tells you to do

• “Your move. Tap a glowing pit on your row.”

• “Ayo board in 3D. Tap one of the glowing pits to sow.”

• “Tap a glowing pit: its seeds are sown one per pit, counter-clockwise.”

Scoring and the leaderboard

Players are ranked by Rivals beaten (highest first). If two players tie, Seeds won (highest first) decides it. Only your best run counts. Sign in with start.ng to save yours.

Before you start

Open Ayo Arena at ayo-arena.start.ng. It runs in your browser, so there is nothing to download.

Sign in with start.ng first if you want your best run saved to the leaderboard.