Patolli English

Patolli is a game dedicated to the god 5 flowers

The god of Patolli was Macuilxochitl, god of music, dance and gambling, called God of the Five Flowers.

The game Patolli had an important ceremonial and religious sense for Mesoamerican peoples, the board has 52 squares that is the same number of years of a cycle of time for the Aztecs.

Instructions:

-The second player choose the bet by clicking the feathers over his character, then the other player starts the game by selecting a bean to get it on the board.

-To put a token on the board the player should get a point, to roll the beans click on the top of the cross.

-Once the tokens get into the board each may go as many as dots in the beans, but if all beans are marked you can advance 10 spaces, if you can not throw you have to skip and lose a bet by clicking on the feathers over your character.

-If someone is on corners of the crosses he may roll again.

-When a token is on a space marked with dark lines you have to pay a bet to the other player.

-A token may be removed and send to the start if any is in the spaces of the center of the cross and one before these.

-To win the game you have to go all the way all tokens or make the other player with nothing else to pay.