4/15/2023 0 Comments Mancala setupYou may find, when moving pieces from a hollow containing a lot of pieces, that you place pieces in all of your hollows and then have to continue round to those of your opponent. To move your pieces, you pick up all the pieces from the hollow you’ve chosen and place one in every subsequent hollow (including your Mancala if you have that many, but excluding your opponents Mancala) until you run out. Before play begins you will determine who plays first and they will then choose one of their hollows, and move the pieces from it. A Mancala board set up for play (with three “connect four” pieces used to make up for three missing dragon drops)Įach player plays to their right, so the long hollow on the end of the board to their right becomes their “Mancala”, similarly, the hollows on the side of the board you are sitting on, are yours – this is very important – you are not allowed to move pieces from your opponents hollows. Pieces could be anything, from small stones to pieces of glass, to counters you’ve borrowed from another game. Each of the circular hollows will then have three playing pieces placed in it before the game begins. Then there will be six small circular hollows carved into each long side of the board. ![]() There will be one long hollow carved vertically into each of the short ends, so that they run parallel to the end of the board. It ‘s a very quick game to learn, the board is (usually) made of wood, is oblong in shape and has several hollows carved into it. The board, the pieces, and how to play! Objective: The objective of the game is to have the most pieces in your Mancala at the end. I wasn’t introduced to it as a non-virtual reality game until a few years later. I’ve been playing this game my whole life, although, as children my brother and I played it as a mini game on an educational computer game we owned and it was called Mother Bird’s Eggs. If the child can correctly predict the hand that holds the seed, the player plays first.So, having been pretty quiet for a while, I’m making a return to my quick games chain of posts, with Manacala. One person holds up a seed in one of their fists towards a child. There is a rule for choosing the first person to play. In Kenya, the Mancala variant that’s common here is called Bao, and the game-play is soo simple that even a kid can play and excel in it. This is possible when one player has one piece in each small house or when one player captures all the stones. The first difference between the rules of Uganda’s mancala game and the one described above is that there is no storage in Omweso (Omweso or Mweso is the Ugandan name for mancala).Īnother difference is that the way to win is to be the final person who makes a move on the board. Other variant mancala rules in some African countries When this situation happens, the second player can capture all the remaining seeds on the board The game ends when the six holes on a player’s row no longer have any seeds.Once your last seed ends in a blank hole, you’ve lost the opportunity to repeat the process.You can cross-capture the Mancala pieces that are in your opponent’s small house directly adjacent to yours if the last stone on your hand is placed in an empty hole that’s on your row in the Mancala board.You are allowed to repeat the process if the last Mancala seed is dropped in the large hole.These rules are a modification of the basic rules and depend on a pre-existing agreement between the players. Only drop seeds into your storage house and not your opponent’s storage house.A player can drop one seed in the large storage house if they cross it during their movement.Always move in an anticlockwise direction and dropping a seed per hole during the movement.Hence, Mancala is highly effective in improving a Kid’s fine motor skills. Pick up and drop seeds with only one hand.The player that starts the game will choose his/her preferred row, and pick all the Mancala pieces in a row to begin the game. Ideally, when the game is about to start, the storage houses will be empty. Each player places four seeds in each of the six small houses for a total of 24 seeds. ![]() The rules of basic play don’t make one “color” more valuable than the other. ![]() The varying colors and materials of these pieces are for style preference. This house is also called “the storage house,” and you are to put each seed that you capture in this house. There is a large rectangular house on each end of the board. ![]() The horizontal row in front of each player has six holes for keeping the player’s Mancala pieces. The 2-rank mancala board (which is the most popular variant of the board) has a total of 12 small holes, also called ‘pits’ and ‘houses.’ You need to understand the basics of the mancala game before trying to understand the rules and variations of the games.
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