Pallanguli is still popular among kids in rural Tamilnadu

Thottiyapatty kids play Pallanguli using pebbles

Pallanguli is still popular in interior Tamilnadu villages among kids. Thottiyapatty is a village, on school holidays; the kids play pallanguli with no cost with a bit of ground and tiny pebbles. Normally Pallanguli is played by Tamil rural children and women. Rural kids make holes cup in the ground the small piece of ground has 14 holes cups, each player controlling seven. Six tiny pebbles are placed in each cup. The starting player lifts the tiny pebbles from any of kid’s cup and, going counter-clockwise, distributes one seed in each hole. If a tiny pebbles kid reaches the end of kid’s cups the kid goes on the/her opponent's side of the ground Board. When the player drops his last pebble, playing kid takes the rubbles from the next cup and continues placing them in this way. If the last pebble falls into a cup with an empty cup beyond, the pebbles in the cup beyond the empty hole are captured by the player and put into his/her store. That player then continues play from the next cup containing pebbles. If the last seed falls into a cup with two empty holes beyond, he captures no seeds and his turn is over. The next player continues play in the same way, taking pebbles from any of his cups and going around placing seeds in a counter-clockwise direction. If, after having pebble dropped into it, a cup contains four tiny pebbles; those become the property of the player who dropped the pebble. The round is over when no pebble remains. Once the first round is over players take the tiny pebbles from their stores and fill as many of their holes as possible with tiny pebbles. The winner will have a surplus of tiny pebbles which are kept in his store. The loser of the first round will be unable to fill all of his holes. These unfilled holes are marked as "rubbish holes." In the next round play continues as before, but without the rubbish holes being included and the player who went first in the previous round going second. During the game if a player has enough tiny pebbles to fill any of his rubbish holes 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 tiny pebbles at the end of a round.-Govin