Vai Lung Thlan is a variety of the board game mancala

Mancala

Mancala is a family of board games played around the world, sometimes called "sowing" games, or "count-and-capture" games, which describes the game-play. Mancala games play a role in many African and some Asian societies comparable to that of chess in the West, or the game of Go in Eastern Asia...

 variant played by the Mizo people of eastern India. The game is played on a board with 12 holes in two rows. Initially each hole contains five beads.

Sources

Russ L.
The Complete Mancala Games Book: How to play the World’s oldest Board Games. Marlowe & Company, New York 2000.

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