Barsees

How to play

1. A board of four crossing arms with the kitchen in the middle, every piece's goal. Each player has four pieces that start in the base.
2. You throw six shells and count the closed ones: none is 6 (shakkeh), one is 10 plus a khal (dast), 2, 3 and 4 count as themselves, five is 25 plus a khal (bunj) and six is 12 (bara).
3. The khal is an extra one-step value. A special throw, shakkeh, dast, bunj or bara, gives another throw until a normal one comes; then you spend all the values in any order on any pieces.
4. A piece enters the board only with a dast, a bunj or a khal: a dast puts it on the X square to the right of your arm's tip, a bunj on the square marked / on the arm to your right, and a khal on the first square of the kitchen path.
5. Landing on an opposing piece on an unsafe square sends it back to base, even two of them. Squares marked X are safe: you cannot land there on an opposing piece.
6. A piece goes once all the way round the board before taking the path to the kitchen, and entering the kitchen needs the exact count.

Winning

• You must move while any value can be used; when none can, your turn passes.
• The first player to get all four pieces into the kitchen wins, and the game ends at once.