Rainbow Mancala is a two-player combinatorial sowing game played with 48 seeds, eight in each of six colors, on a Mancala board having two rows of six holes with storehouses at each end. Games in the Mancala family usually have indistinguishable seeds, but sowing games with distinguishable seeds, while uncommon, are not new. A few examples are listed in...
A Greek mancala game. From Mancala World: http://mancala.wikia.com/wiki/Mandoli Mandoli ("almonds") was played in the Cyclades, Greece, in the second half of the 18th and the first half of the 19th century. A mancala game played in the Levantine was shown by the Swiss miniaturist Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-1789) in his painting "Deux dames grecques ou...
A mancala game. From Mancala World: http://mancala.wikia.com/wiki/Mangala_II "Mangala is a Turkish mancala game which was very popular in the 17th and 18th century. According to Metin And, a Turkish ethnologue, the game could be related to the "mancala" of The Arabian Nights (fifteenth night), one of the first literary accounts of mancala games. The game...
A mangala game. From Wikimanqala: http://www.wikimanqala.org/wiki/Mangola_%28traditional%29 "Mangola has become in recent decades the most popular Mancala game played in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is known from the Virunga mountains to the Sudanese border, and from Bangui (Central African Republic) to Arui near Uganda. Mangola is a new game which...
Martial Art is a subtle game of confrontation and brutally effective hand-to-hand combat, transforming each player to a master of their chosen fighting art, from capoeira and kung fu to bare-knuckle boxing. In Martial Art, the Guardian of the Temple of Equilibrium is searching for a successor. From all over the world, the best fighters are invited to prove...
A manqala game. From http://www.wikimanqala.org/wiki/Mbelele: "Mbelele is a very special mancala game. It is played by the Manga (or: Mba) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They live between Kisangani and Banalia and the game is played along the road that links Kisangani with Buta between kilometer 17 and 118. The Manga are the most southern...
In this card game for 3 to 5 players, the cards represent not only the four quarters of the Medicine Wheel, but also several other elemental features of Anishinaabe culture. The aspect of the game that sets it apart is the “sowing” of cards around the table in a mancala fashion to build sets for yourself, at the same time sharing cards with other players....
A mancala game. From: http://mancala.wikia.com/wiki/Mefuvha Mefuvha ("foggy rain") ("foggy rain") is a mancala game of the Venda who are living in north-eastern South Africa. It is closely related to Moruba played in the same area by the Pedi and to games known by the Tonga in Mozambique, e.g. Tchouba and Njombwa. The game is played by men only, while...
Meow-CALA is a charming cat-themed twist on the classic game of Mancala. Players take turns picking up and sowing cat tokens around their board, aiming to collect the most in their store. While the core mechanics remain true to the timeless original, the cute artwork and playful theme bring a fresh and delightful energy to the strategic gameplay. Perfect...
The game consists of three tracks, laid out by tiles: An inner one that both players use and two outer ones, used by only one player each. At the outset of the game, each player places three pieces on each tile in the two lanes s/he can use. Afterwards, the players take turns picking up all the pieces from one tile, then moving the pieces onward in the...