Compatible emulators

Synopsis

Mancala is a family of board games where the goal is to capture seeds which are placed in several bowls. This particular game is based on Oware (or Wari as it is called in the manual), a variant originating from West Africa. The game can be played by one player against an AI or against another human player. Both players have six bowls and at the start there are four seeds in each bowl. Both players must then sow their seeds and they do so in turns. Sowing means that the player takes all the seeds from a bowl and places them in each bowl counterclockwise from the bowl that is emptied. The aim of the game is to capture seeds and this happens automatically when the last seed placed in a round leads to a bowl on the opponent's side of the board containing two or three seeds. The player making the move will then capture all the seeds in that bowl. If the previous bowl also contains two or three seeds, these are also captured until a bowl that does not contain two or three seeds is reached. The winner of the game is the player who captures the most seeds. Since there are 48 seeds in total, capturing 25 seeds is enough to win.

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