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Neal McDonald 2010; this document is in the public domain.
Morra
a 5-minute board game for up to five players
EQUIPMENT:
No equipment is needed. You could use coins on the
circles to the right to keep track of scores for many
players, but more than four is pretty confusing.
HOW TO PLAY:
Play is in several rounds. Each round has three steps:
1) All players say “One, two three!” and then,
immediately after, a number. If you wait, you lose,
because that's cheating.
2) With the number, players each throw out
one hand, with some number of fingers out.
3) The number of fingers out is added up, and
the player who said that number gets one point.
WINNING:
The first player to get 3 points is the winner.
BY THE WAY:
You people are yelling again. Yes, yes you are.
VARIATIONS:
For two players, the players choose who is playing
as "odd" and who is "even". After shooting, if the
sum is odd, odd wins, and even means even wins.
HISTORY:
The Romans had a saying:
“You could play Morra with him in the dark.”
The illustration is from a ancient greek vase,
showing a pair of Morra players with a rod-- the rod
would have been marked and moved back and forth by
one as a player wins or loses. The players are sitting
on pots that hold their bets. Big pots!