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rounds made. Find out a system providing for each starting position, which is not difficult, as their number is limited. The first rounds in all cases in which the starting player has all the 9 holes of his kampong filled up, should be played as follows: e.g. A starts, B has only 7 holes filled up. A commences with the contents of hole A 1; the last seed falls into his rumah. He then begins with A 7, ends in B 9, and again in his rumah. Follows A 5, ends in B 8 and again in his rumah. Next is A 3, ends in B 7, and again in his rumah. Then the system ends, and the following move is left to A's calculation. The rule:—begin with 1, then with the hole situated opposite the opponent's last hole, and further with the second to the right of the hole emptied in the preceeding round,— can be applied to all games whenever the starting player has at his disposal all the 9 holes of his kampong. If he has less, the system changes, but it is similar and can easily be figured out.