Tchuka Ruma, a mancala game, was first described as Tchouka by the French
mathematician Henri-Auguste Delannoy (1833-1915) in 1895.
He said that his article is from his correspondence with Edouard
Lucas (1842-1891).
The goal is to collect as many stones as possible in the "ruma".
- On his turn a player takes all the stones of a non-empty hole and sows them,
one by one, towards the "ruma" into the following holes.
- If the last stone falls in a non-empty hole other than the "ruma",
its contents are distributed in another lap.
- If the last stone falls in the "ruma", the player moves again.
- If the last stone is put into an empty hole, the game is over.
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