Kâra is a mancala game, which is played by the Bagara in Kordofan Province, Sudan, primarily during the fasting month of Ramadan. It was first described by R. Davies in 1925. The counters are generally small balls of dried clay, called tûb ("bricks"). A hole can become very full of balls, with the result that it is difficult to foresee the effect of moving...
Kariba and Kalak are 2 different games by Frank Stark that come in one box. Both can be played using the same components. Kariba, the main game, is a 2 player variant inspired by the Mancala game family. Kalak is a Marbles variant, or rather, a pebble-flicking dexterity game whose arena is created by assembling the 2 piece jigsaw board in an alternative...
Karnak is a Mancala-type family game for 2-4 players. Quote from the box: "3000 year old stragic game from old Egypt". In this version of Mancala game, the 12 cups are in circle, and there are markers for to indicate the cups for 2, 3, or 4 players. The game system is traditional: pick beans, drop them one by one in other next cups (with 3 or 4 players...
Katra Mpantsaka (mpantsaka from tsaka "limited") is a mancala game played by the Sakalava people, which occupy the Western edge of the Madagascar from Toliara in the south to Sambirano in the north. The game is typically played on a 4x8 board with 2 seeds in each hole, but it has also been described on 4x4 and 4x6 boards and with 3 seeds in each hole. On...
A mancala game. From Mancala World: http://mancala.wikia.com/wiki/Katro "Katro is played by the Betsileo people in Fianarantsoa in the southern highlands of Madagascar. The game was described by the Dutch mancala researcher Alexander Johan de Voogt during an extensive field study in 1998. The board is usually dug in the earth and the players, mostly adult...
Kauri is one of the modern games in the Kalah Family of pit and seeds games. As for the other games in the Mancala Family, the goal of the game is to accumulate more seeds in player's storehouse than the opponent. The uncommon feature of the game is that in addition to seeds special "cowries" are used for making moves, capturing seeds on the opponent's...
From Wikimanqala: http://www.wikimanqala.org/wiki/Kiela Kiela is a mancala game played by Kimbundu (sometimes called Mbundu, Loanda or Luanda) speaking people in northern Angola. The game plays an important role in the oral literature and it is said to be a game of peace because "it can turn enemies into friends". On the 5th of January, 1999, the...
Kisolo (also called Cisolo in Kasai) is a mancala type game played by the Luba, Lulua and Songye in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Initially there are three seeds (makombo) in each hole. If a player cannot capture, he starts his turn by emptying one of his holes and then distributes its contents one by one counterclockwise into the...
From wikimanqala: http://www.wikimanqala.org/wiki/Kotu-baendum Kotu-baendum ("tying up the enclosures") is played in Sri Lanka. The game was first described by Henry Parker in 1909. It is almost exclusively played by women, especially at the season of New Year. An average game takes about 30 moves. Rules: The board called olinda-poruwa has 14 holes (wala)...
A manqala game. From Wikimanqala: http://www.wikimanqala.org/wiki/Krur Krur (crur) is a game is played by Hassaniya (Moor) people. They are a mix of Arab Beduins and Tamazigh (Berber). Their language is mostly an Arab dialect with a strong Tamazigh influence. Hassaniya-speaking people live in the western Sahara from Niger to Mauritania. They constitute the...