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1969 · 2-2 players · 20min · weight 2.00 · 32 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
19916
Name
Cups
Year
1969
Rank
25489
Min players
2
Max players
2
Playing time
20
Min playtime
20
Max playtime
20
Avg weight
2
Num weights
6
Bayes avg
5.50066
Average
5.54688
Users rated
32
Num owned
23
Wanting
1
Wishing
5
Num comments
13
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:44:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (1)
Mancala
Categories (1)
Abstract Strategy
Description (689 chars)

Cups is a modern member of the mancala games family and was developed by Arthur and Wald Amberstone of the New York Game Associates and published by Sid Sackson in A Gamut of Games. Each player is given four cups, one pot and 40 beans. Players take turns placing one to four beans sequentially in their cups, beginning with the cup on the left and moving towards their pot on the right. Only if the last bean will land in the pot, a player may pick up all beans from a cup instead, and sow these. Whenever the last bean is placed in an empty cup, beans in the opponent's adjacent opposite cup are captured (to the pot). The player with most beans in the pot at the end of the game wins.

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.