Zohn Ahl

Zohn Ahl ("creek" "wood") is a roll-and-move board game played by the Kiowa Indians of North America.

It is often equated (or possibly confounded) with Tsoñä ("awl game"), also played by the Kiowa.

[2] Note that the two names create an interesting but coincidental sonic overlap: Zohn = "creek," a feature of the board; and Ahl = "wood," the term for the dice.

But "ahl" and "awl" have no relation to each other, one being a Kiowa word, the other English, and signifying different objects.

The four two-sided stick dice, one with a specially marked flat side (sahe, "green"), can fall in eight possible configurations, yielding the indicated values: ("+" means "and throw again".