Oware bụ egwuregwu atụmatụ na-enweghị atụ n'etiti ezinụlọ ndi mancala nke egwuregwu bọọdụ (egwuregwu oghere na pebble) na-egwuri egwu n'ụwa niile na obere ọdịiche dị na nhazi egwuregwu ahụ, ọnụ ọgụgụ ndị egwuregwu na atụmatụ egwuregwu. Mmalite ya ejighị n'aka mana a kwenyere n'ọtụtụ ebe na ọ bụ nke ndi Ashanti.
Egwuregwu na mpaghara obodo Bono, mpaghara owuwa anyanwu Bono, mpaghara Ahafo, mpaghara Central, mpaghara Western, mpaghara Eastern, mpaghara Ashanti nke Ghana na mpaghara Caribbean niile, oware na ụdị ya nwere ọtụtụ aha - ayò, ayoayo (Yoruba), awalé (Ivory Coast, Benin), wari (Mali), ouri, nchil ma ọ bụ uril (Cape Verde), warri (Caribbean) Pallanguzhi (India) wali (Dag), adji (Ewe), awa/ókwè (Igbo), ise (Edo), "s), (Edo). Aha a na-ahụkarị na Bekee bụ awari mana otu n'ime ndị ọkà mmụta ọdịda anyanwụ mbụ na-amụ egwuregwu ahụ, Robert Sutherland Rattray, jiri aha wari.
Ndị na-esonụ bụ iwu maka ọdịiche abapa, nke a na-ewere dị ka nke kachasị mma maka egwuregwu siri ike, nke ndi okenye.