Mancala

Sow seeds and out-collect the computer in this ancient counting game.

🌰 Sow the seeds, fill your store, out-count the computer!

Board · Ages 5+

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How to play Mancala

• Goal: Collect more seeds in your store — the big pit on the right — than the computer collects in its store on the left.
• Your move: Tap one of your pits on the bottom row. You pick up all its seeds and drop them one by one into the next pits, going right along your row, into your store, then left along the computer's row. You skip the computer's store.

Game modes

Pick the level that suits you — Mancala offers 3 ways to play:

• Easy
• Medium
• Hard

Skills you'll practise

number sense, planning, logical reasoning

Did you know?

🌍 Mancala is one of the world's oldest families of board games: pieces of mancala boards from the 6th–7th centuries were found at Matara (Eritrea) and Yeha (Ethiopia). Its name comes from the Arabic naqala, “to move”.

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