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Patolli

A named race-and-dice board game of later Mesoamerican practice. Not pachisi, not mancala, and not a generic board dump.

Also known as Aztec patolli

Nahua tradition

Patolli appears in Nahua tradition.
The Florentine Codex describes patolli, the Nahua race-and-dice board of play and wager. A named Mesoamerican board in that ethnography, not pachisi and not senet.
from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577
appears in · sourced · culturally specific

sources

Florentine Codex · Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators
Bernardino de Sahagún, General History of the Things of New Spain (Florentine Codex).