Abalone (board game) and 5 pits on each edge. "Abalone" was published in 1990 and has sold more than 4.5 million units. The year it was published it received one of the first Mensa Select awards in New York, New York. It is currently sold in more than thirty countries. The board consists of 61 circular spaces arranged in a hexagon, five on a side. Each player has 14 marbles that rest in the spaces and are initially arranged as shown below, on the left image. The players take turns with the black marbles moving first. For each move, a player moves a
Elgin Marbles the missing elements clearly marked and space left should they be returned to Athens. Outside Greece a campaign for the Return of the Marbles began in 1981 with the formation of the "International Organising Committee - Australia - for the Restitution of the Parthenon Marbles, and in 1983 with the formation of the ""British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles". International organisations such as UNESCO and the International Association for the Reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures, as well as campaign groups such as, Marbles Reunited, and stars of Hollywood, such as George Clooney and Matt Damon, as well