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The game was played by enslaved Africans to foster community and develop social skills. Archeologists may have found evidence of the game Mancala played in Nashville, Tennessee at the Hermitage Plantation. [9] Recent studies of mancala rules have given insight into the distribution of mancala.
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.
The rules for the most common seven-hole mancala versions in Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, the Maldives, Marianas, and the Philippines are almost identical. Each player controls the seven holes on the side of the board to their left and their score is the number of seeds in their store holes.
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]
Ayo (Yoruba: Ayò Ọlọ́pọ́n) is a traditional mancala played by the Yoruba people in Nigeria. It is very close to the Oware game that spread to the Americas with the atlantic slave trade. Among modern mancalas, which are most often derived from Warri, the Kalah is a notable one that has essentially the same rules as Ayo.
Bao is a traditional mancala board game played in most of East Africa including Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Comoros, Malawi, as well as some areas of DR Congo and Burundi. [1] [2] It is most popular among the Swahili people of Tanzania and Kenya; the name itself "Bao" is the Swahili word for "board" or "board game".
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.
55Stones is a modern mancala game with simultaneous moves. Kauri is a modern mancala game with two kinds of seeds. Mangala (Serdar Asaf Ceyhan; Turkey) Space Walk is a modern boardgame with mancala mechanic. Trajan is a modern boardgame variant with mancala mechanic. Five Tribes is a modern boardgame variant with mancala mechanic.