1. Awithlaknakwe is played on a 12-by-12 grid board with 6 additional squares centred on each of the four sides.

2. Each player selects 6 BEADs the colour of their choice.

3. BEADs are placed on the six squares that extend from the grid, on player’s side of the board.

4. Each player selects 1 BEAD of an additional colour which will become their priest BEAD. This BEAD starts off the board.

5. Players decide who begins the game by rolling a die.

1. In turns, players move 1 BEAD onto an empty square in a vertical or horizontal direction. No BEADs can move in a backwards direction.

2. Players capture BEADs by surrounding an opponent’s BEAD on two sides either horizontally or vertically.

3. When a player loses their first BEAD to a capture, they add their priest BEAD to the board on any of their starting squares.

4. The priest BEAD can move 1 space onto an empty square in a vertical, horizontal or diagonal direction. Priest BEADs cannot move backwards.

5. A player can only make 1 capture per turn.

6. Captured BEADs are removed from the board.

7. Players continue to move their BEADs towards their opponent’s starting position, when one player has moved all their remaining BEADs across the board, the game ends.

To win, a player must have the most points. Players win 1 point for every BEAD at their opponent’s end of the board and 1 point for every BEAD they have captured.

1. Awithlaknakwe (also known as Stone Warriors, or Game of the Stone Warriors) is a strategy board game from the Zuni Native American Indians of the American Southwest.

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