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In New Zealand, supposedly the Ngāti Hauā chief Wiremu Tamihana offered to play the board game Mū tōrere with the British governor George Grey, with the winner of the match getting the whole country. What's the context, and how likely is it this really happened?

by /u/jbdyer in /r/AskHistorians

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