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...
River Trek is a strategy game of placing trading posts and moving stacks of explorers along the path of a river. On your turn, you 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 earns money if a trading post...
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...
A print'n play, pit and peebles inspired African themed game. During the medieval times, kingdoms and empires rise and fall in the African continent. The object of the game is simple, it uses a mancala/oware/awele style mechanic. As a player, take control of one of the four kingdoms, rise, expand, and collect resources before falling. You will do so using...
Players are disciples at a monastery on Mt. Kunlun. The holy tree is blooming, and you need to collect its seeds and present them to the old masters of the monastery and the divine beasts. Players have a hand of five movement cards, and spend one each round to move a shared pawn between the six magic sites and collect seed cards. Each player and each site...
A mancala game. From http://mancala.wikia.com/wiki/Sad%C3%A9qa: Sadéqa is the generic name for mancala games known in the southwest of Ethiopia and nearby Sudan. This particular variant is played by the Jimma who live in western Ethiopia. It was described as Sadéqa V (Game 84) by Richard Pankhurst, who stated that it used to be a popular pastime at the...
A manqala game. From http://www.wikimanqala.org/wiki/Sat-gol: "Sat-gol was described by Professor Hem Chandra Das Gupta. He was the first Indian full-time Professor of Geology at Presidency College, Founder of Geological, Mining and Metallurgical Society and Geological Institute. The information about sat-gol comes from the village of Gosalpur, in the...
SDGs industrial planner is a board game with a carbon-neutral background, urban development planning as a scenario, and the underlying logic of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. Players play the role of industrial planners, leading their teams to carry out “Development”, “Production”, “Orders” and other work, and in developing the city's industry...