Melembor

Melem or melembor is a boardgame played with coins or counters on a rectangular board, with the object being to get as many counters as possible into the centre area while knocking away counters of opponents.

It is played by two to four players, on a board or tray with a lip to retain the counters. Boards are either polished or lacquered with amberglass for a smooth finish, and many are highly decorated. The board is painted with a circle in the centre and semicircles in each corner, representing areas in play. Each player starts with six or seven counters in their corner, taking turns to strike counters into the centre circle, or to knock out those of opponents. Players can only strike counters within their semicircular area. When no more counters can be played, the game is over, and the player with most coins in the centre circle wins. Each player takes turns to push a counter into the centre by striking it with another counter, or striker. Players typically start with six or seven counters, though there are numerous variations of the game.

The game was a popular gambling game in the Empire of Dor-en-Sann where it was played with coins, but was undoubtedly ancient even then. In simple games, the winner took all the coins on the table. In more complex gambling versions, players proceeded by seven rounds, placing bets on their success at the end of each round.

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Ororr [o-ROARR, ɒ̝rɔ'ɾ], also called the Holy Motherland of Ororr, is a theocratic nation in Anásthias, one of the world's great powers. It the largest nation in the world, perhaps the largest empire in history, occupying the entire northwest of the continent between the mountains and the sea. Ororrlanguagelanguagelanguage and western Munatan. It is also found in game-houses in Harthera where it is viewed as a simple occidental oddity.