Konane
Kōnane or rarely mū is a two-player Hawaiian strategy board game invented and played by its native people. The game is played on a rectangular board and begins with black and white counters filling the board in an alternating pattern. Players then hop over one another's pieces, capturing them similar to checkers or draughts, though both players' pieces mingle in position by default occupying every square of the board unlike the separate sides in checkers; the objective and winning conditions of the game are also completely different. All moves in kōnane are capturing moves, captures are made in an orthogonal direction (not diagonally) by "jumping" over the opposite color piece into an empty space, and in a multiple-capture move, the capturing piece may not change direction. The first player unable to capture is the loser. The word mū may had referred the act of capturing people as slaves or sacrifice.
Kōnane has some resemblances to games of the English leap frog, fanorona in Madagascar and main cuki (also spelled chuki or tjuki) among the Malays and Javanese of Southeast Asia. Before contact with Europeans, the game was played using small pieces of white coral and black lava on a large carved rock which functioned as both the board and a table. The Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park has one of these stone gameboards on its premises. It was recorded in the Kumulipo, it was also noted by James Cook described the game during his only visit to Hawaii on his third and final voyage prior to his death there.
The Bishop Museum organized the first professional tournament of the game in February 2026.
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