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How to play Sungka?

Sungka is a traditional Filipino game with 2 players and to start the game, the Sungkaan must be
placed horizontally between the two players so that each player has seven houses/holes in front of him,
and the heads should be at the far ends to the left and right. Each player's . Each player controls the
seven holes on his side of the board and the "head" is the hole/pit to player's extreme left. The goal of
the game is to accumulate as many pieces in your own "head. The player has 49 game pieces equally
distributed with seven pieces in every hole - except the heads which remain empty. Both players play
simultaneously and may decide which of the seven houses directly in front to begin with and picks up all
of the shells from the chosen hole and the moves in clockwise-direction, dropping one shell in each hole
or head he passes over, including all of the holes on both sides of the board and the player's head but
not the opponent's head. Once a player has ended their first turn, he must also wait for the opponent to
complete his turn, and from that point on, players take it in turns to play their turns. The game ends
when no pieces are left in any hole on both sides of the board. The players now count the number of
pieces in their own "head" and see who has won.

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