This game rewards cooperation and celebrates teamwork. The whole community benefits when all the millet has been stored in the granary!

You will need:

• sand or soft dirt
• a little water
• some shells or pebbles
• a die

First, build a granary for storing millet— a structure two feet square. Use moist sand or dirt. on each side, hollow out five steps, starting three inches from the bottom.

Each player starts with six shells or pebbles, which are the millet they must get to the storehouse roof. To reach the first step, a player must roll a ONE on the first turn. Each player gets two chances. if they are unsuccessful, they must wait until their next turn to try again.

To reach the second step, they must roll a TWO, and so on, until a SIX puts them on the roof.

Each time a player rolls a ONE, they may start a new shell or pebble moving up the steps.

Cooperation: When a player lands on the same step as someone else, the two proceed together and have twice as many chances with the die of getting the millet to the top.

Teamwork: When any player rolls a six, every player’s millet waiting on the fifth step goes to the roof.