Mancala
Type of count-and-capture game / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the family of board games. For North American variant also known as Mancala, see Kalah.
"Mankala" redirects here. For a type of cooperative in Finland, see Cooperative.
Not to be confused with Mandala or Lake Manzala.
Mancala (Arabic: منقلة manqalah) refers to 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.
Versions of the game date back past the 3rd century and evidence suggests the game existed in Ancient Egypt. It is among the oldest known games to still be widely played today.