![]() This incident is said to have given the game its Akan name of ‘Oware’, which means ‘he marries’. ![]() Tradition has it that long ago a game of Oware between a man and a woman lasted so long, they decided to get married in order that they might be together for as long as they wished, to have time to finish the game and many more thereafter. In its complex form it is played rather as a game of strategy. ![]() In its simplest form it can be played purely as a game of chance. Oware is probably the most therapeutic arithmetical game with a mass following anywhere in the world. In Ghana, carvings were found in the temple of Tarkora in Tanobuase in the Techniman district. Rock cut boards or great antiquity has been found in Zimbabwe. ![]() Stone carvings of the game board surviving from ancient Egypt have been discovered in the roofing slabs of Kurma Temple at Thebes, in the summit of the great pylon at the entrance of the temple of Karnak, and at Lukor temple. One side indicated money and goods received, and the other recorded sales or payments. There is evidence that it was invented by the Sumerians of ancient Africa several thousand years ago as a system of record keeping, having debit and credit entries. Used alongside art materials to confront painful and unhappy feelings Excellent as a non-verbal means of expression
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