about

kukuba is a family, group (small & large) and kitty party entertainer board game played between 3 or more people (upto 100 or even thousands). It is similar to tambola/housie game with some twists. A caller picks a kuba randomly and announce it. Players have to strike that kuba on their card if it exists. If all kubas are striked, player have to shout kukuba to announce a win.

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Contents
about ...................................................................................................................................................... 1 Requirements/preparation ...................................................................................................................... 3 Unique about Kukuba .............................................................................................................................. 3 Who can play........................................................................................................................................... 3 What is a kuba? ....................................................................................................................................... 3 How to play kukuba ................................................................................................................................. 3 Various formats of kukuba....................................................................................................................... 3 kukuba classic ...................................................................................................................................... 4 kukuba short ....................................................................................................................................... 4 kukuba duplicate ................................................................................................................................. 4 kukuba blank ....................................................................................................................................... 4 kukuba double ..................................................................................................................................... 4 kukuba theme ..................................................................................................................................... 5

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Requirements/preparation
a kukuba game board with 1-90 numbers set of kukuba cards a marker/pen to strike out kubas

Unique about Kukuba

Various formats of Kukuba makes it unique and interesting.

Who can play

anyone above the age of 5 can play kukuba who knows counting for kukuba classic and for other formats depending on the knowledge.

What is a kuba?
A kuba is a single number, name, a cue on a kukuba card. Like in a kukuba simple it is a number, for a theme based kukuba it is a name.

How to play kukuba

Kukuba cards are distributed to players. Organisor has kubas (i.e. shops) from 1-90 for kukuba classic (and 1-45 or 1-50 for kukuba short). Organisor picks up a Kuba (shop) randomly for closing and announces the shop name/number. Players have to close that Kuba (shop) in their colony (on the card). If Kuba (shop) is not present on the card, player doesn't have to do anything for kukuba classic (for other kukuba formats it may vary). Organisor at the start of game will tell which format of Kukuba they are playing and will distribute cards accordingly for that format. For the format being played, organisor will also tell winning criterias for the game like colony (house), street (rows) and crossing (corners) etc. If a player closes all shops on a card i.e. for a colony, street, crossing or some other combination (as define at the start of game by organisor) then he/she has to shout kukuba. After this, organisor will verify the card with kukuba board (a city) if the player has won or not.

Various formats of kukuba

Kukuba game has many formats which makes it unique and more interesting. If we compare it with the game of tambola then we can say that tambola is simple and monotonus with no options for player's engagement while Kukuba is interesting which gives an opprtunity for players to engage as well.

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kukuba classic
Kukuba Classic is the traditional tambola/housie game. With 1-90 numbers on the board.

kukuba short
Kukuba Short is a game to make it short and faster. It has numbers from 1-40 (or 1-45 or 1-50) depending on the requirement. Cards also have numbers from 1-40 (or 1-45 or 1-50) respectively.

kukuba duplicate
Kukuba duplicate has one number duplicate from 15 numbers that are on a card. There are 14 unique numbers and one numbers come twice. When this duplicated number is announced player having this number strikes both the occurrence of this number. This gives an added fun for the game.

kukuba blank
Kukuba Blank has one of the Kuba (number) as blank such that ticket have 14 values and 1 blank place holder. Player can use this as a nakku (i.e. the trump slot/ trump number/ joker). So, when an organisor calls a kuba then player can use the called Kuba for this nakku. There could be few ways depending on the rules set by organisor that this nakku can be used.
nakku comes in a particular column then it should be used for that column numbers only. e.g. if it comes in column 6 i.e. Column F then numbers applicable are 50-59. Player should take a number from this range and the chosen number should not be present already on card. (recommended) nakku can be used for any number from 1-90 and this number should not be present already on card. nakku can be used for that column and that row numbers e.g. if nakku is present in Column F i.e. Column 6 and Row 2 then the number range would be 63-65. How these are divided is: 60-62 for first row, 63-65 for second row and rest of the numbers of that column range for 3rd row i.e 66-69 for this case.

kukuba double
Kukuba double has double the numbers i.e. 30. There are 2 numbers in each cell like 5/8 i.e. Upper/Lower. Upper one is 5 and lower ine is 8 here. All 30 numbers are unique on the card. While playing a game, player can strike any of the Upper/Lower number or both and rules of Classic Kukuba applies from there on. If for 1st row, 5 numbers have been striked out each 1 one

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from each cell of the row, then the players wins. So, a player get more options to strike numbers and doesn't have to wait to strike out a number. Logic is simple. Every cell should have atleast one number striked out to win a particular combination.

kukuba theme
Kukuba theme is about Kuba other than numbers. These could be names, text or images. Some examples are movie names, bollywood actors, country names, song names, daily soaps, animal names etc.

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