Ô ăn quan

However, as time passed Vietnamese children no longer had the same passion for the game like those in the past.

For this reason, the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology is exhibiting the game with fully explained instructions with the aim of keeping the game alive among children nowadays.

], Ô Ăn Quan belongs to the Mancala family of games that has its origin rooted in Naqala (means movement).

Through time, this game got popularized to other countries through culture and religion.

There is a Vietnamese saying to express this situation: "hết quan, tàn dân, thu quân, bán ruộng" (literally: "Mandarin is gone, citizen dismisses, take back the army, selling the rice field") or "hết quan, tàn dân, thu quân, kéo về" (literally: "Mandarin is gone, citizen dismisses, take back the army, retreat") Whichever player has more pieces is the winner (a Mandarin piece is equal to ten or five citizen pieces).