The disks are then sent spinning over the mat to the player who hides them.

He mixes up the disks, hides them, shuffles the piles until another guess is made.

If that guess should be by a player on the side that had just lost a point, and the guess prove to be successful--that is, the pile pointed at contain the "chief"-- then the messenger takes the tally-stick that had been put at the end of the row of the opposite side and stands it in front of the successful guesser.

He could not take back a tally-stick that had been won by a guess unless all the tally-sticks had been taken from the small mat.

One side or the other must win twenty points to be victor in the game.