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Mancala (Arabic: منقلة manqalah) is a family of two-player turn-based strategy board games played with small stones, beans, or seeds and rows of holes or pits in the earth, a board or other playing surface. The objective is usually to capture all or some set of the opponent's pieces.
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.
Oware is an abstract strategy game among the mancala family of board games (pit and pebble games) played worldwide with slight variations as to the layout of the game, number of players and strategy of play. [1] Its origin is uncertain [2] but it is widely believed to be of Ashanti origin. [3]
Kalah is a modern variation in the ancient Mancala family of games. The Kalah board was first patented and sold in the United States by William Julius Champion, Jr. in the 1950s. [1] [2] This game is sometimes also called "Kalahari", possibly by false etymology from the Kalahari Desert in Namibia. [citation needed]
Souvenir wood board for Toguz korgool game Toguz korgool [ 1 ] ( Kyrgyz : тогуз коргоол – "nine sheep droppings" ) is Kyrgyz version a mancala family game . Toguz korgool differs in that one of all the withdrawn korgools is stay in this hole.
In the first game, they are Nine men's morris, Gomoku, and Mancala. In 2, these games are Tablut, Jungle (called "Jungle Chess" in the program) and Surakarta. Each game has three levels and provides the user with the ability to decide whether a computer opponent will play offensively or defensively.
At game setup, two seeds are placed in each pit. At his or her turn, the player relay sows the seeds from one of his or her pits, with the constraint that the chosen pit must be in the outermost non-empty row. As with most mancala-IV (i.e., mancalas with 4 rows), sowing is confined to the player's own rows. Sowing may occur in two "directions".