Prudh (“Prew”) is a classic-style abstract game. It uses a 6x6 two-color board and 36 identical pieces. The color of each space determines who controls each piece. Players take turns consolidating their power and attacking their opponents’ spaces. The goal is to score the most points without running out of moves. Prudh is a derivation of “Prudhomme,”...
Puppy Power is a free print&play 52-card puzzle game for 1 (solo) or 2 players (head to head) The puppy's stuff is all over the place and you have to order all of it exactly right using a mancala style system. Both players get a set of 5 Puppy Stuff cards which they put face-up in this pattern : 2 cards above the Puppy card, 1 to the right, 1 at the bottom...
A mancala game from Beni Amir & Mensa (the place in Eritrea, not the club). From http://mancala.wikia.com/wiki/Qelat_(Beni_Amir_%26_Mensa): "Qelat is a common name for mancala variants played in western Eritrea. In Bilén it is the plural of qeltay, the name of the seeds used in the game. This particular variant is played among the Beni Amir and Mensa...
A mancala game from Keren. From http://mancala.wikia.com/wiki/Qelat_(Keren) "Mancala variants are often played in the Keren-Agordat area of western Eritrea. Most players are herdsman taking their cattle to water, newly married couples and their friends, and housewives in their homes. Qelat is usually played in holes in the ground, but wooden boards are...
Quindo is a rather unusual mancala variant, which is played in a cooperative manner. There are ten fields in a circle, with each field connected to the one on the opposite side by a line. In each field there are three playing pieces (six colors with five pieces each, which are usually randomly placed in any way the players like). At his or her turn, a...
The name Rincala refers to ring and Mancala. In this game, however, the well-known hollows are turned into stacks. On each move, you spread the pieces of one stack in a ring onto the other playing pieces. If, after the spreading, two pieces of the same color come to lie on top of one another (on one or more stacks), you get to take the one(s) on the very...
A mancala game. From http://mancala.wikia.com/wiki/Rio_Kadalis: Rio Kadalis ("helping a female goat to give birth") is a mancala game, which is played by the Habr Awal tribe and other clans in Hargheisa and in the Jigjiga area in Somalia. The game was first described by Richard Pankhurst in 1971. Similar games exist in western Eritrea and in some parts of...
A strategy game of placing trading posts and moving stacks of explorers, called caravans, along the path of a river. On your turn, you will pick up a stack of explorers, called a Caravan, and move it mancala-style by dropping the explorers one at a time off the bottom of the stack as it travels forward. Each explorer dropped on a space will earn money if...
From the publisher: The knights set off from their castles to conquer the surrounding land. For the wealth of the big towns and the villages belonging to them is just too tempting. Of course, once in possession, no knight wants to lose his newly acquired properties, so this means: caution. For the other players´knights are awake to any opportunity and the...
You are a Venetian jeweler. Make a bracelet with Venetian glass beads known as “rondelles.” In Rondel Rummy, players compete to make bracelets. Players begin each round by adding beads to either side of their empty metal hoop. Once everyone has a full bracelet, players take turns exchanging with the beads on a metal tray. In order for a bracelet to be...
A small-scale abstract strategy game inspired by Mancala. Rondol provides simple concept with surprising depth. Play is simple: pick up stacks of chips that you control and play them out either clockwise or counter-clockwise, placing each chip on a space. You can only pick up stacks that have your color on top. The goal? Control 4 stacks of chips in a row...