Inapatikana
Himaya ya Mafumbo ya Afrika
Tatua mafumbo. Jenga himaya yako kote Afrika.
Jinsi unavyochezwa
Tatua
Mafumbo yaliyoundwa kwa mkono ambayo yanakuwa mahiri kadri unavyokuwa, si magumu tu.
Pata
Kila ubao uliotatuliwa hulipa rasilimali unazozihitaji kweli.
Jenga
Tumia unachopata kwenye miji, alama za kihistoria na miundombinu.
Panua
Fungua maeneo mapya, kila moja likiwa na utamaduni, muziki na changamoto zake.
Vitu halisi
Mchezo huu unahusu mahali halisi na watu halisi. Hivi ni vitu walivyotengeneza, vilivyopigwa picha na makumbusho yanayovihifadhi — si michoro yetu.
A brass weight used to measure gold dust. The board in Africa Puzzle Empire is built from shapes like this one, and they are units of a real measuring system rather than ornament.
Geometric gold weight — Akan artist · 16th–17th century · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, 1994.312.3 · CC0. See it at the museum
A gold weight cast in the shape of a sword. Figurative weights carried proverbs as well as mass, so a set was both a scale and a way of saying something.
Sword gold weight — Akan artist · 18th–19th century · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, 1994.312.7 · CC0. See it at the museum
A gold weight cast as a chair. The Akan goldsmiths who made these worked to tolerances a modern balance can still verify.
Chair gold weight — Akan artist · 18th–19th century · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, 1994.312.12 · CC0. See it at the museum