Mancala is a family of board games played around the world, sometimes called sowing games, or count and capture games, which describes the game play. The word mancala comes from the Arabic language Arabic word naqala meaning literally moved. There is no one game with the name mancala instead mancala ... applied to any one game. In the USA, however, mancala is often used as a synonym for the game Kalah . General gameplay Most Mancala games share a common general game play. Players begin by placing ... Image Igoware.JPG frame Wooden Mancala board from West Africa Equipment is typically a board, constructed ... captured them. Objective The objective of mancala games is usually to capture more stones than the opponent ... laps or relay sowing is a frequent feature of mancala games, although not universal. When relay ... i.e. mancala holes in the base of an Kingdom of Aksum Aksumite stele , Axum , Ethiopia . Among the earliest ... he refers to a game called qarqis , a term used in Ge ez language Ge ez to refer to both Gebet a Mancala ... by modern scholars generally resemble games common to the Roman world, rather than anything like Mancala ... Bohnenspiel and Bosnia, where it is called Ban Ban and still played today. Mancala has also been ... States USA has a larger mancala playing population. A traditional mancala game called Warra was still played in Louisiana in the early 20th century. In Cape Verde, Mancala is known as ouril ... games , Mancala games have led to psychological studies. Retschitzki has studied the cognitive processes ... a Characterisation of Bao Mastership, Leiden CNWS Publications ref See also Portal Games List of mancala ..., 1998 http compgeom.cs.uiuc.edu jeffe pubs sowing.html . Larry Russ, The Complete Mancala Games ... ethic in African idiom. Paideuma 28 175 191. Voogt, A.J. de 1997 . Mancala Board Games. British Museum Press London. References reflist External links commons Mancala http mancala.wikia.com wiki Main Page Mancala World the largest wiki on mancala games http www.msoworld.com mindzine news classic ... more details
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Game s in the mancala family include Popular games The most widely played games are probably Bao mancala game Bao is a complex strategy game of Kenya and Zanzibar , played on an 8× 4 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 stores ... with unusual features Das Bohnenspiel Bohnenspiel is a German mancala based on a Persian game not unlike some African mancala variants. The board is 2× 6 with stones. Eson xorgol , a game played ... York Glass Bead Game game The Glass Bead Game Christian Freeling is a complex mancala style game with different ... for more than two players. 55Stones is a modern mancala game with simultaneous moves. Kauri game Kauri is a modern mancala game with two kinds of seeds. Traditional games Abangah the Azande of Sudan ... of Nigeria Mak Khom Thailand Mancala h Egypt , Syria Mandoli Greece Hydra, Saronic Islands Hydra Mangala ... Cotton, H. J. Braunholtz, A Mancala Board Called Songo. , Man. Vol. 31. July 1931 , pp. 123. ref Sungka Philippines Til guti India Mancala Toee Sudan Toguz korgool Kyrgyzstan The board is 2× 9 ... Murray , History of Board Games other than Chess 1952 8. Laurence Russ , Mancala games 1984 9. H ... http mancala.wikia.com wiki Names A collection of 781 names for traditional mancala games and http mancala.wikia.com wiki Modern sowing games a list of 144 modern sowing games at Mancala World http www.msoworld.com mindzine news classic mancala Descriptions of Mancala Games http webfacil.tinet.org jtc Oware Awale and other Mancala games an informative page http www.driedger.ca mankala Man 2.html The Game of Bao, or Mancala, in East Africa DEFAULTSORT List Of Mancala Games Category Lists of games Mancala Category Mancala Category Traditional board games it Lista di mancala pt Anexo Lista de jogos de mancala ru zh ... more details
Infobox Mancala title Bao ranks Four sowing Multilap region East Africa Image Bao players in stone town zanzibar.jpg right 250px thumb Bao players in Stone Town , Zanzibar Bao is a traditional mancala board game played in most of East Africa including Kenya , Tanzania , Comoros , Malawi , as well as some areas of Democratic Republic of the Congo DR Congo and Burundi . ref Hyde 1694 , pp. 226 232 ref ref http www.wikimanqala.org wiki Bao Bao at WikiManwala ref ref http www.gamesfromeverywhere.com.au rules Bao History Rules.pdf Bao history and rules ref It is most popular among the Swahili people of Tanzania and Kenya the name itself Bao is the Swahili language Swahili word for board or board game . In Tanzania, and especially Zanzibar , a bao master called bingwa , master but also fundi , artist is held in high respect. In Malawi, a close variant of the game is known as Bawo , which is the Yao language Yao equivalent of the Swahili name. ref http mancala.wikia.com wiki Bao la Kiswahili Bao la Kiswahili ref Bao is well known to be a prominent mancala in terms of complexity and strategical depth, ref name vogt1995 De Vogt 1995 ref and it has raised interest in scholars of several disciplines, including game theory , Computational complexity theory complexity theory , and psychology . ref ... , see below are associated to Bao, as it is the only known mancala to have such feature ... on a mancala board comprising four rows of eight pits each in swahili, pits are termed mashimo singular ... mancala terminology that are termed kete shells . Note that a similar equipment a 4x8 ... occurs, the player takes all the seed from the captured opponent s pit, and Mancala General gameplay ... wiki Bao la Kiswahili Bao at Mancala World http www.chamijada.net CHAMIJADA , official site of Dar ... and Bao la kujifunza Category Zanzibar Category Traditional mancala games Category Swahili culture bg de Bao Mancala Spiel et Bao es Bao juego eo Bao fr Bao jeu it Bao sw Bao fi Bao zh ... more details
Infobox Mancala ranks Two sowing Single lap region Mongolia div class floatright style background color white border 1px Mancala hole 6 size 32px Mancala hole 6 size 32px Mancala hole 6 size 32px Mancala hole 6 size 32px Mancala hole 6 size 32px Mancala hole 6 size 32px Starting position for nee tugalluulakh. div nee tugalluulakh lang mn , let the cows calve is a mancala game played by Kazakhs in western Mongolia . External links http www.wikimanqala.org wiki Unee tugaluulax Rules to Unee tugaluulax posted on the manqala.org wiki. DEFAULTSORT Unee Tugaluulakh Category Traditional mancala games Category Mongolian games board game stub it Unee tugalluulax pl Unee Tugaluulach ... more details
orphan date August 2009 Giuthi is a game played by the Kikuyu people Kikuyu of Kenya , amongst others. It belongs to the Mancala family of games and is played with round counters, such as beans, and two rows of holes in the ground . ref Huxley, E. Red Strangers ref References references External links http mancala.wikia.com wiki Giuthi A detailed description at Mancala World. Category Traditional mancala games Category Kenyan culture Game stub it Giuthi zh ... more details
Infobox Mancala ranks Two sowing Multilap region Nigeria Je rin , also known as j rin j rin , is a mancala game which is very similar to Ba awa . It is played by Yoruba people in Nigeria. Rules The game has the same rules as Ba awa except the following The contents of two adjacent holes a total of eight seeds are used for the opening move. When there are just eight seeds left on the board, the player who captured the first four with the last seed of a lap anywhere on the board takes these and the game ends. External links http mancala.wikia.com wiki J 27erin J erin at Mancala World Category Traditional mancala games zh ... more details
Multiple issues one source September 2011 refimprove September 2011 notability September 2011 Infobox Mancala ranks Two sowing Single lap region Iraq Halusa , or Halusi , is a traditional mancala game which is similar to Turkish mangala game mangala . It is played in Iraq . Rules The game has the same rules as mangala game mangala except the following The game is played on a 2x6 board with six pieces in each hole initially. If the last stone falls into a hole on the opponent s side not either side of the board , and this hole then contains an even number of stones not just two or four , these stones are captured. External links http www.wikinfo.org index.php Halusa Halusa at Mancala World Category Traditional mancala games zh ... more details
notability date September 2011 unreferenced date September 2011 Infobox Mancala ranks Two sowing Single lap region Palestine Al manqala is a traditional mancala game which is very similar to Turkish mangala game mangala . It is played in Palestine . Rules The game has the same rules as mangala game mangala except the following The game is played on a 2x7 board with seven pieces in each hole initially. If the player whose turn it is to move cannot feed the other player when all houses in the other side are empty, the game ends and all pieces on the board go to the other player. External links http mancala.wikia.com wiki Al manqala Al manqala at Mancala World Category Traditional mancala games zh ... more details
Kisolo also spelled Chisolo is a traditional mancala game played by the Luba people Luba , Lulua and Songye peoples of Democratic Republic of the Congo DR Congo and Zimbabwe . It is closely related to other East Africa n mancalas such as Bao mancala game Bao , Bao Kiarabu , Coro and Isolo . ref Aimee H.C. Bessire, A Short Tour of the Sukuma Museum , http philip.greenspun.com sukuma museum.html ref The board used to play Kisolo is usually 4x7, i.e., 4 rows of 7 pits each, although there are also Kisolo boards that have 6 pits per row. At game setup, 3 seeds are placed in each pit. Traditionally, seeds from the ngola tree Pictantus makombo or the menga tree Canarium schweinfurtii are used. Footnotes references External links http mancala.wikia.com wiki Kisolo Kisolo at Mancala World game stub Category Traditional mancala games Category Democratic Republic of the Congo culture Category Zimbabwean culture it Kisolo zh ... more details
Infobox Mancala ranks Two sowing Multiple lap region Sahara Krur also spelled Crur is a traditional mancala game played by the Hassaniya people in western Sahara , along the border of Nigeria and Mauritania , in southern Morocco , in Algeria , in northern Senegal , in Mali and in Niger . It is a children s game, very close to other simple African mancala such as Layli Goobalay Somalia and Nsa Isong Nigeria . References Fernando Pinto Cebri n , Juegos saharauis para jugar en la arena. Juegos y juguetes tradicionales del S hara , Madrid 1999 . External links http www.manqala.org wiki index.php MancalaGames Krur Rules of the game Category Traditional mancala games Category Nigerian culture Category Mauritanian culture Category Moroccan culture Category Algerian culture Category Senegalese culture Category Malian culture Category Nigerien culture game stub it Krur zh ... more details
ref improve date September 2011 Infobox Mancala ranks Two sowing Multilap region Syria La b Hakimi Rational game , also known as La b Akili Intelligent Game , is a mancala game played in Syria . Rules The game has the same rules as La b Madjnuni Crazy Game except the following ref name uwaterloo cite web url http www.gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca Archives Culin Mancla1894 index.html title Mancala, The National Game of Africa author Stewart Culin publisher University of Waterloo accessdate 2 September 2011 ref At the beginning of the game, seven pieces are placed in each house. Each player may choose one of the seven houses under their control, instead of first taking from the house on their right. References references Category Traditional mancala games zh game stub ... more details
Vai Lung Thlan is a variety of the board game mancala variant played by the Mizo people of eastern India. The game is played on a board with 12 holes in two rows. Initially each hole contains five beads. Sources Russ L. The Complete Mancala Games Book How to play the World s oldest Board Games. Marlowe & Company, New York 2000. http www.manqala.org wiki index.php MancalaGames VaiLungThlan board game stub Category Traditional mancala games de Vai lung thlan pl Vai lung thlan zh ... more details
Kiela is a traditional mancala board game played by the Kimbundu people in northern Angola , who describe it as a game of peace . A national tournament of Kiela is held every year in Angola since 1999 . The game is similar to the uganda n mancala Omweso and its variants, which are played throughout Eastern Africa eastern and southern Africa . See also Omweso Kimbundu References http www.kiela game.com Kiela game http www.manqala.org wiki index.php MancalaGames Kiela Rules of Kiela at Manqala Bibliography Bernardo Campos , Kiela Um jogo de origem africana , Livraria Bertrand, Lisboa 1998 Category Traditional mancala games Category Angolan culture board game stub it Kiela ... more details
Hawalis is a traditional mancala game played in Oman as well as Zanzibar , where it is known as Bao la Kiarabu , with slightly different rules. It is closely related to Africa n mancalas such as Bao mancala game Bao Tanzania , Malawi , Kenya , Njomba Mozambique and Malawi , Lela mancala game Lela Democratic Republic of Congo DR Congo , Mulabalaba Zambia , Muvalavala Angola and Tschuba South Africa , Mozambique . Rules Oman Hawalis boards in Oman are composed by 4 rows of 7 holes. At game setup, two seeds are placed in each hole. Each player owns half of the board 2 rows of the board. At his or her turn, the player takes all seeds from a hole and Mancala General gameplay relay sow s them counterclockwise. If there are holes with more than one seed, then the player must sow starting from one such hole. If the last seeds fall in a hole of the inner row and the opposite hole in the opponent s half board is not empty, its contents are captured and removed from the game. If both the opposite hole and that behind it in the opponent s half board are non empty, all seeds are captured from both of them. The game ends when one of the players is left without any seed in his rows. The winner of the game is the player who captures most seeds. Rules Zanzibar The rules of Bao la Kiarabu were originally transcribed by W. H. Ingrams, who described two variants of the game. One of them is exactly the same as Oman s Hawalis. The other one uses a different board, with 2 rows of 8 holes each the same board used for Bao mancala game Bao . This also differs from Hawalis in that sowing goes clockwise ... Silva, E. 1995. Jogos de quadr cula do tipo mancala com especial incid ncia nos praticados em Angola . Lisboa. Russ, L. 2000. The complete Mancala Games Book . New York. Alex de Voogt Voogt, A. J. de 2003. Hawalis in Oman a first Account of Expertise and Dispersal of four row Mancala in the Middle ... Hawalis Hawalis at Mancala World Category Traditional mancala games Category Omani culture Category ... more details
http www.johnpratt.com items mancala ayoayo.html Ayoayo rules ref ref http mancala.wikia.com wiki Ayoayo Ayoayo ref Footnotes references References http www.johnpratt.com items mancala ayoayo.html Ayoayo rules collected by John Pratt http mancala.wikia.com wiki Ayoayo Ayoayo rules at Mancala World Category Traditional mancala games Category Yoruba culture it Ayoayo ... more details
El Arnab is a traditional Arab solitaire based on the general equipment and gameplay of mancala games. It is played by the Kababish people of Sudan . The name El Arnab means the rabbit . Rules 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. code 3 2 1 2 br br 2 1 2 1 code To begin the game, the player takes all the seeds from the pit at the upper left corner of the rows, and Mancala General gameplay relay sows them counterclockwise. Sowing also includes the stores. This relay sowing and thus the game itself never ends it is meant to be just a pastime. It happens that every 26 relay sowings, the board goes back to its initial setup. External links http mancala.wikia.com wiki El Arnab El Arnab References R. Davies, Some Arab Games and Puzzles . In Sudan Notes & Records 8 1925 , pp. 137 152. Category Traditional mancala games Category Sudanese culture it El Arnab ... more details
wiktionary bao Bao may refer to Baozi , a Chinese steamed bun Bao mancala game , a mancala game from East Africa Bao Xishun , the world s tallest living man Bao Zheng , a Chinese judge of Song China Bao King of Fighters , the King of Fighters character Stir frying Bao technique , A Chinese stir frying technique b nh bao , a Vietnamese dumpling with pork meat inside, variated from the Chinese dumpling Baozi barium oxide BAO stands for Baryon Acoustic Oscillations , in physical cosmology Bao surname , a common pronunciation for some Chinese surnames, such as and See also BAO disambiguation disambig de Bao pt Bao ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Nsolo also called Chisolo is the Zambia n version of mancala . Nsolo game is usually played by scooping holes in the ground and using small stones or mugongo nuts see http www.merriam webster.com dictionary mugongo for playing pieces. Two players scoop four rows of holes in the ground and begin to play, usually with the help of a number of bystanders. However carved wooden game boards exist from earlier years and can also still be bought at tourist markets in Livingstone, Zambia Livingstone and Lusaka . Several variations of the game exist. Category Zambian culture Category Traditional mancala games Board game stub Zambia stub ... more details
Orphan date October 2010 Hoyito also known as El Hoyito , Casitas or Mate is a traditional mancala game played in the Dominican Republic . All the names it goes by are descriptive of elements of the game hoyito means little hole referring to the pits of the board , casitas means houses referring to pits containing 4 seeds , and mate is the name of the tree whose seeds are used as counters. The game is very similar to Wari . External links ca http manqala.org wiki index.php Hoyito Hoyito http mancala.wikia.com wiki Hoyito I Hoyito Category Traditional mancala games Category Dominican Republic culture game stub it Hoyito zh ... more details
File Wooden Mancala board.jpg thumb Layli Goobalay is played on a 2x6 mancala board, the same used for Wari and many other mancalas Layli Goobalay or Layli Goobaly is a traditional mancala of Somaliland . The name of the game means to exercise with circles . It is quite similar to the Enkeshui mancala played by the Maasai people Maasai . Also Tampoduo and Ayo J odu , played by children respectively in Ghana and Nigeria , are almost identical to Layli Goobalay. Rules Layli Goobalay is played on a 2x6 mancala board i.e., 2 rows of 6 pits each and 48 seeds. At game setup, 4 seeds are placed in each pit. These are exactly the same equipment and game setup used for other mancalas, most notably Wari . At his or her turn, the player takes all the seeds from a pit and Mancala General gameplay sows them counterclockwise. If the last seed of a sowing falls in a non empty pit that is not a Uur see below , Mancala General gameplay relay sowing applies. Thus, the player s turn ends when the last seed in a sowing is dropped in an empy pit or in a Uur pit. Depending on the pit where this last seed was dropped, the following situations may occur if the pit is a Uur , nothing happens if the pit is in the opponent s row, nothing happens if the pit is the player s row, and the adjacent pit in the opponent s row is empty, nothing happens if the pit is the player s row, and the adjacent pit in the opponent s row is non empty, the seeds in the opponent s pit are captured. This in turn may lead to two consequences if the opponent s pit contains 3 seeds, one of those seeds is captured and placed in the same pit as the capturing seed. The two pits involved in the capture thus will have 2 seeds each. Those are termed Uur meaning pregnant and they now belong to the player who captured if the opponent s pit contains any other number of seeds, all those seeds as well as the capturing seed are removed ... modules.php?name games&func display&gameid 1 Rules Category Traditional mancala games Category ... more details
Infobox Mancala ranks Two sowing Single lap region Kazakhstan Eson xorgol is a mancala game played by Kazakhs in western Mongolia . Rules Equipment div class floatright Mancala 2x5 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 size 32px Starting position for Eson Xorgol. div Traditionally, the game is played with a field of 2x5 pits and 90 goat droppings. Of course, some prefer to play the game with 10 cups and any 90 undifferentiated objects, such as stones or glass beads the Nomads usually take dried goat feces . Object The goal is to capture more feces than the opponent. Setup At the beginning of the game, nine droppings are placed in each pit. Unlike many other mancala games, pits are not owned by particular players. Movement Players take turn sowing pieces clockwise around the board. This is the opposite direction of most mancalas. Sowing is accomplished by selecting a pit, removing all the pieces from that pit, and dropping them one by one in each subsequent pit, until all have been used. Capturing A capture is made when sowing ends in an occupied pit immediately followed by an unoccupied pit. When this occurs, all pieces in the pit across from the pit in which the sowing ended are captured. Game end The game ends when the players agree that no more droppings can be captured. External links http www.wikimanqala.org wiki Eson korgool WikiManqala.org s rules to Eson khorgol. Category Mongolian games Category Traditional mancala games Mongolia stub ... more details
Infobox Mancala ranks Two sowing Multilap region Syria La b Madjnuni , also known as Crazy Game , is a mancala game played in Damascus Syria in the late 19th century. Rules ref name uwaterloo cite web url http www.gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca Archives Culin Mancla1894 index.html title Mancala, The National Game of Africa author Stewart Culin publisher University of Waterloo accessdate 2 September 2011 ref The La b Madjnuni board has seven pits, called bute, houses, in front of each player. At the beginning of the game, at least 2 pieces are placed in each pit. The first player takes all the pieces from the hole at the right of his row and drops them counterclockwise, one at a time. If the last piece ends in an occupied pit, then all the pieces in that pit including the last one are distributed as before. These multiple turns continue until the distribution process ends, either the last piece drops into an empty hole, or it drops into a hole containing one or three pieces. If the last piece ends up in a pit which, after sowing, contains exactly two or four pieces, all pieces in this pit are captured with those in the hole opposite. Also, if there is a continuous line of pits with either 2 or 4 pieces before the one where the capture has occurred, all the pieces in those and their opposite pits are captured as well. Culin wrote that the game ends when all the pits are empty , but that s not possible. The exact ending rules is, therefore, unknown. The player who captured most pieces wins the game. La b roseya is a variant of this game that each hole has seven pieces cowries at game setup, and played by children in Syria. See Also La b Hakimi List of mancala games References references Category Traditional mancala games ... more details
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