Konane
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thumb|250px|Mathematicians playing Kōnane at a combinatorial game theory workshop thumb|Konane gaming table erroneously set up at Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau NHP 2017 Kōnane is a two-player strategy board game from Hawaii which was invented by the ancient Hawaiian Polynesians. The game is played on a rectangular board and begins with black and white counters filling the board in an alternating pattern. Players then hop over one another's pieces, capturing them similar to checkers. The first player unable to capture is the loser.
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thumb|250px|Mathematicians playing Kōnane at a combinatorial game theory workshop thumb|Konane gaming table erroneously set up at Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau NHP 2017 Kōnane is a two-player strategy board game from Hawaii which was invented by the ancient Hawaiian Polynesians. The game is played on a rectangular board and begins with black and white counters filling the board in an alternating pattern. Players then hop over one another's pieces, capturing them similar to checkers. The first player unable to capture is the loser.
Before contact with Europeans, the game was played using small pieces of white coral and black lava on a large carved rock which functioned as both the board and a table. The Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park has one of these stone gameboards on its premises.