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Twenty-four cultural clusters.
Every game in Khel sits inside one of these clusters. The clusters aren't political — they're evocative; the shared idiom of schoolyard, courtyard, table, and street.
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South Asia
Monsoon courtyards, kite rooftops, chalk on dirt.
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East Asia
Tatami rooms at night, lacquer tops, paper folded into kites.
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Southeast Asia
Bamboo poles snapping to rhythm, silver-foil seremban.
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Central Asia
Felt yurts, knucklebones, horsemen on the steppe.
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West Asia
Cobalt zellige, terrace cards, cardamom and brass.
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Caucasus
Pomegranate, mountain villages, nardi at the chaikhana.
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North Africa
Marrakech tile, mehen spirals, chalk in dust streets.
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West Africa
Kente gold, oware boards on the verandah, ampe handclap.
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East Africa
Saffron sun, Lamu courtyards, bao under the mango tree.
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Central Africa
Forest greens, raffia weave, songa on stone.
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Southern Africa
Ndebele yellow, morabaraba lines, Karoo dust.
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Western Europe
Stone walls, harvest gold, petanque on a Saturday afternoon.
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Nordics
Fjord blue, kubb pegs in cold grass, lingonberry red.
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Southern Europe
Bougainvillea, briscola at the bar, ochre on stucco.
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Eastern Europe
Carpathian green, amber, durak hands at the kitchen table.
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Balkans
Adriatic blue, garnet wine, tablanet at the kafana.
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Baltics
Amber on the beach, novuss board, pine forest air.
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Russia
Khokhloma red and gold, durak across kitchens, gorodki on lawns.
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North America
Brick stoops, prairie wheat, foursquare chalk on hot asphalt.
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Central America
Talavera blue, marigold, loteria cards at the table.
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Caribbean
Turquoise water, dominoes slamming on a wooden table, hibiscus.
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South America
Amazon green, Atacama ochre, truco on the kitchen counter.
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Oceania
Pacific cobalt, sandstone, marngrook in long grass.
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Polar & Indigenous
Bone cream, ice shadow, one-foot-high-kick under the aurora.