Game Progress:

Instructions to play:

This is a 2 player game. The Player 1 should start the game by picking the coins in any of the cups in the player's side.

There are 2 rows and 7 columns, a total of 14 cups (kuzhi in Tamil) and 146 counters. 12 counters are placed in each cup except the middle of each row into which only 2 counters are placed.

This is a 2 player game. The left side of the board belongs to one player and the right side belongs to the second player

The starting player lifts the counters from any of his/her cups and, going counter-clockwise, distributes one counter in each cup. If he/she reaches the end of his/her cups he/she goes on the his opponent's side of the board. When the player drops his/her last counter, he/she takes the counter from the next cup and continues placing them in this way. If the last counter falls into a cup with an empty cup beyond, the counter in the cup beyond the empty cup are captured by the player and put into his/her store. If the last counter falls into a cup with two empty cups beyond, he/she captures no counters and his/her turn is over. The next player continues play in the same way, taking counters from any of his/her cups and going around placing counters in a counter-clockwise direction.

If, after having a counter dropped into it, a cup contains 6 counters, those become the property of the player who dropped the counter (called Pasu in Tamil) . The round is over when no counters remain.

Once the first round is over players take the counters from their stores and fill as many of their cups as possible with counters. The winner will have a surplus of counters which are kept in his/her store. The loser of the first round will be unable to fill all of his/her cups. These unfilled cups are marked as "rubbish cups." In the next round play continues as before, but without the rubbish cups being included and the player who went first in the previous round going second.

During the game if a player has enough counters to fill any of his/her rubbish cups back up their status is removed and they are again used during play. The game is over when a player is unable to fill any cups with six counters at the end of a round.