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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.
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]
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.
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".
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.
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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]
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 ...