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How to play Ayo

The rules of Ayo on start.ng, step by step.

Play Ayo Ayo on start.ng

Made by
Hamzat
On start.ng since
October 2026

Start a game

  1. Sign in with start.ng.
  2. Play a friend with a link, find a match, or play the bot.

The rules

  1. The board has two rows of six pits, with four seeds each.
  2. Pick one of your pits, lift its seeds and drop them one by one, counter-clockwise. You go along your row, then back along theirs.
  3. With 12 or more seeds, the pit you lifted from is skipped.
  4. If your last seed makes one of their pits hold exactly 2 or 3, you capture it. You also capture the pits before it that hold 2 or 3.
  5. Capturing every seed they have captures nothing.
  6. If they have no seeds, you must give them some when you can.
  7. First to 25 wins.

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