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Two Turkish girls playing mangala, 1700s [1] Mangala is a traditional Turkish mancala game. [2] It is strictly related to the mancala games Iraqi Halusa, Palestinian Al-manqala, and Baltic German Bohnenspiel. There is also another game referred as Mangala played by the Bedouin in Egypt, and Sudan, but it has quite different rules. [citation needed]
The objective of most two- and three-row mancala games is to capture more stones than the opponent; in four-row games, one usually seeks to leave the opponent with no legal move or sometimes to capture all counters in their front row. At the beginning of a player's turn, they select a hole with seeds that will be sown around the board.
Oware, the national game of Ghana, is also known by Warri, [1] Ayo (Yoruba Name. Nigeria), Awele, Awari, Ouril, and other names. It has relatively simple rules but considerable strategic depth. The board is 2×6 (not counting optional stores). Omweso (also known as coro) is a strategic game of Uganda, played on a 4×8 board.
At game setup, the 30 seeds are placed in the 2x6 pits according to the following scheme: 2 3 1 3 2 4 2 3 1 3 2 4. Although the game is technically a solitaire, it requires a second person besides the player, who has the function of a "dealer". The dealer and player must first agree about the pit of the board from which to start.
The game provides a Kalah board and a number of seeds or counters. The board has 6 small pits, called houses, on each side; and a big pit, called an end zone or store, at each end. The object of the game is to capture more seeds than one's opponent. At the beginning of the game, four seeds are placed in each house. This is the traditional method.
El Arnab's board is a mancala board comprising 2 rows of 3 pits each, with an additional larger pits ("stores") located at each end of the board. The game setup is as follows: 3 seeds in the lefthand store; 1 seed in the righthand store; 2 seeds in each of the four pits at the extremes of the rows; 1 seed in each of the remaining pits. 3 | 2 1 2 |
Games magazine included Oh-Wah-Ree in their "Top 100 Games of 1981", noting that while there may be many commercial versions of mancala, "only this one includes rules for several of the best variations, as well as illustrative examples of entire games". [3] The game was also included in their "Top 100 Games of 1982", where it was similarly said ...
The game ends when all the pieces are captured. If both Mandarin pieces are captured, the remaining citizen pieces belong to the player controlling the side that these pieces are on. There is a Vietnamese saying to express this situation: "hết quan, tàn dân, thu quân, bán ruộng" (literally: "Mandarin is gone, citizen dismisses, take back the army, selling the rice field") or "hết ...