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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 |
The game is also called Herding the Cows (or Herding the Bulls). It is an alignment game with captures similar to that of the game Dara. Players first drop their pieces onto the board, and then move them (herding the cows) orthogonally in an attempt to form 3 in-a-rows which allows a player to capture any of their opponent's piece on the board.
The most widely played games are probably [according to whom?]: Bao is a complex strategy game of Kenya and Tanzania, played on a 4×8 board. Kalah is the ruleset usually included with commercially available boards; however, the game is heavily biased towards the first player, and it is often considered a children's game. The board is 2×6 with ...
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.
Some traditional South Asian games, such as kabaddi, kho-kho, and atya-patya, are believed to be thousands of years old, finding mention in historical scriptures [3] and dating back to ancient India. [4] [5] [6] Kho-kho, for example, dates back to at least the fourth century BC. [7]
Omweso (sometimes shortened to Mweso) is the traditional mancala game of the Ugandan people. The game was supposedly introduced by the Bachwezi people of the ancient Bunyoro-kitara empire of Uganda. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Nowadays the game is played and enjoyed by people from various parts of Uganda.
The traditional Mundari tribal lands are located roughly 75 kilometers north of Juba, the capital of South Sudan, and are centered on the town of Terekeka in the state of Central Equatoria. They are bordered to the north by the Bor Dinka at Pariak, and to the south by the Bari of Juba 12 km at the Gwerkek north of Peiti Northern Bari of Juba ...
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