Awithlaknakwe

Awithlaknakwe gameboard and starting setup for four players (two teams): Red and Black vs. White and Blue

Awithlaknakwe (also known as stone warriors, or game of the stone warriors[1]) is a strategy board game from the Zuni Native American Indians of the American Southwest. The board contains 168 squares with diagonal grids. Two or four may play, with players identified as North, West, South, and East.

The game was described by Stewart Culin in his book Games of the North American Indians (1907).

  1. ^ Bell, R. C. (2012). Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations. Courier Corporation. pp. 49–50. ISBN 978-0-486-14557-0.