Morabaraba

About this game

Morabaraba is a traditional board game of Southern Africa, played in Lesotho, South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe. Twelve cows each on a board of three squares joined by lines and diagonals: place your herd, form a mill of three to shoot an opposing cow, slide to open and close mills, and fly when you are down to three. Learn in nine hands-on lessons, watch a free Auto Play demonstration play a whole game for you, play four computer levels or a friend on one phone, and solve a daily puzzle. Painted dusk-over-the-veld art, large text and reduced motion. No ads, works offline.

How to play

1. New here? Tap Learn to play: nine short lessons where you make every move yourself.
2. Placing: TAP an empty point to place a cow. Each side places all twelve cows first.
3. Three cows in a line make a mill, diagonals included. Close one and TAP a glowing cow to shoot it.
4. A cow standing in a mill is protected, unless all of that side's cows are in mills.
5. Sliding: TAP a cow, then a glowing point (or DRAG it). Cows move one step along a line.
6. Down to three cows you may FLY a cow to any empty point. Fewer than three, or no move, loses.
7. Illegal move? The cow tries, comes back, and a message says why. Hints explain themselves.
8. Beat each computer level with each colour for a star. The daily puzzle is the same for all.
9. Auto Play (free, silent): watch a full game play itself - it pauses for you to think, then reveals and plays the move it chose.