Mancala games

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I have been introduced to this type of stone-moving, capturing, counting game just recently, and I think it has the potential to overtake my sudoku addiction.

Apparently there are many rules variations and names, mostly associated with a particular African nation.

http://www.rocketsnail.com/mancala/game.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mancala

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 12 March 2006 17:19 (twenty years ago)

neat! i think im gonna buy that as a board game.

― Yawn (Wintermute), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 00:10 (twenty years ago)

as soon as i find out how to win a game i dont have the first turn in, that is.

― Yawn (Wintermute), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 00:36 (twenty years ago)

I used ot paly this game a lot as a kid. It was big in my family. I think, though, if I were to play it again, I wouldn't buy a board. I'd just buy glass beads (they're like a dollar for 50 or something) and a piece of wood, and make little hollows in the wood and varnish it. Then again, I am cheap. Like, epic cheap. The proportions of my cheapitude are epic.

― Will M. (Will M.), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 03:05 (twenty years ago)

Surely the $10 (or less) that mancala sets go for in drug stores is less expensive than that time when you could be out there making SALES SALES SALES!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 04:02 (twenty years ago)

Hell, I was gonna teach my friends with an egg carton and a roll of pennies.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 04:53 (twenty years ago)

Pennies?? Those things don't grow on trees you know! Get some gravel, man!

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 10:39 (twenty years ago)

THANK YOU for this thread. I had completely forgotten the name of this game. Mancala. Thanks.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 23:04 (twenty years ago)

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