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The game ends when all the pieces are captured. If both Mandarin pieces are captured, the remaining citizen pieces belong to the player controlling the side that these pieces are on. There is a Vietnamese saying to express this situation: "hết quan, tàn dân, thu quân, bán ruộng" (literally: "Mandarin is gone, citizen dismisses, take back the army, selling the rice field") or "hết ...
Aw-li On-nam Ot-tjin (or simply Otjin) is a traditional mancala game played by the Penihing people of Borneo. The first transcription of the rules of the game was completed by norwegian ethnographist Carl Sofus Lumholtz. Despite its origin, Otjin is similar to african mancalas such as Ba-awa and quite different than most Asian mancalas.
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".
Oh-Wah-Ree is a commercial variant of Oware with provision for more than two players. 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 ...
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.
Two Turkish girls playing mangala, 1700s [1] 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. [citation needed]
Kiothi is a traditional mancala game played by the Meru people in Kenya.The word "kiothi" simply means "to place" (i.e., placing the seeds in the pits). This mancala is closely related to the Enkeshui and the Giuthi mancalas, respectively played by the Maasai, the Kikuyu and Embu people.
A wooden mancala board.. Layli Goobalay (or Layli Goobaly) is a board game played in parts of Somalia.It is a variant of the classical count and capture game mancala (from the Arabic word naqala, meaning literally "to move"), which is one of the oldest two-player strategy board games played throughout the world.