Tawula is a historical tables game once popular in Asia Minor and Egypt.
The following rules are based on Bell (1988) except where stated:[1] Tawula is a game for two players using a standard tables board with 4 quadrants, 12 points on each side, and a pair of dice.
Players throw for the first move, and the one with the highest score plays the numbers on the dice thrown.
If this happens in a player's entry table, a point must be left free to enable re-entry if the right number is thrown.
Players may not double their pieces within their opponent's tables, except on the left-hand corner points–sometimes called the heads[4] – and on the original starting points.