Game of the beans

The game of beans, in mapudungun awar kuden or, formerly, lügün, is a traditional game of Mapuches.

Played between two people throwing eight beans in turn. Each bean has one of its sides peeled and dyed with charcoal and each player has twenty chips (kow) to mark the many.

Before starting the game, players present an object that will give the other if it loses. Since it is a child's play, normally the objects wagered are garments or toys. There is a piece of cloth or other surface that serves as a board and the players are placed face to face, with the chips at the side of his body.

Launch shifts consist of several runs. At each roll, the player throws his beans on the board as he sings to call for good luck. If the eight beans fall "back" (payḻanagün), with the side painted up, or "belly" (lüpünagün), the player scores two and has the right to a new roll. If half of the back and half of the belly fall, it is called unemployment and worth a little, but it also gives the right to a new roll. The turn ends when results are not scored.

Who first meets 20 goals, has won a round. The winner of the game is the one who wins two rounds in a row. Bibliography

Lonco Pascual Ñi tuculpazugun. Testimony of a mapuche cacique (in Spanish and Mapudungun) (Eighth edition). Santiago: Pehuén. pp. 37-39. ISBN 956-16-0128-1. | access = required | url = (help)

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