Board game · 1969
Cups
Cups is a modern member of the mancala games family and was developed by Arthur and Wald Amberstone of the New York Game Associates and published by Sid Sackson in A Gamut of Games. Each player is given four cups, one pot and 4…
- Players
- 2
- Duration
- 20 min
- Age
- 8 and up
- Complexity
- Family
Wald Amberstone · Arthur Amberstone · Dover Publications
Add to my shelf Sign in to add it to your shelf
Videos to learn
No rules video for this game yet. Know one?
Three ways to move forward anyway:
In brief
Cups is a modern member of the mancala games family and was developed by Arthur and Wald Amberstone of the New York Game Associates and published by Sid Sackson in A Gamut of Games.
Each player is given four cups, one pot and 40 beans. Players take turns placing one to four beans sequentially in their cups, beginning with the cup on the left and moving towards their pot on the right. Only if the last bean will land in the pot, a player may pick up all beans from a cup instead, and sow these. Whenever the last bean is placed in an empty cup, beans in the opponent's adjacent opposite cup are captured (to the pot). The player with most beans in the pot at the end of the game wins.
Contribute to this page
Add a resource, correct information or report a link. Every contribution is gathered here and reviewed before publication.
Suggest a videoReviewed before publication
An account is needed to suggest a change. Create an account
Correct the detailsReviewed before publication
An account is needed to suggest a change. Create an account
Suggest a correctionReviewed before publication
An account is needed to suggest a change. Create an account
Suggest rules or a player aidReviewed before publication
An account is needed to suggest a change. Create an account
In the same spirit
Games that share its mechanics. Neither expansions nor other editions.
