According to Mancala World: Baré is a mancala game, which is played by the Anuak people who are living in Sudan. It is a relaxation of menfolk, young and old alike. The holes (called oto; that is "house") are usually dug in the ground, but wooden boards or receptacles of dried mud also exist. The counters (nyi baro; literally "child of baré") are pebbles...
A blackbox is a device, system, or object which can be viewed in terms of its inputs and outputs, or transfer characteristics, without any knowledge of its internal workings. Its implementation is "opaque" – or black. This kind of system may exchange matter with its environment. The term originates from military signal engineering and originally designated...
Bohnenspiel (Bean Game) is an old German game for two players that belongs to the Mancala 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. This is done by landing the last seed you are "sowing" in some pit bringing the total number of...
A Somali mancala game with Indian-style sowing. From Mancala World: "Bosh is a game played by the Darod clan in Somalia. It was first described by the ethnologue G. Marin in 1931. The game is similar to Indian mancala games such as Pachgarhwa and Sat-gol. Rules Bosh is played on a board of two rows, each consisting of five holes dug in the ground. There...
In the vast realm of Backyardia, the Bug Council convenes to discuss important things like picnics, how to ruin picnics and, of course, income tax reform. The different factions of bugs- ants, flies, bees, mosquitos and cockroaches- find themselves in an ever-shifting balance of power and only those who ally themselves with the most powerful will seize the...
“2-4 Player Mancala Variant using a square 36 pit board. Capture the Most stones by the end of the Game. The Game ends when there are only 6 or less stones remaining on the board. The board is composed of 36 Pits (spaces) laid out in a 6 by 6 Grid. Use glass beads or whatever (seeds, nuts, pebbles) for Pieces. Players share a common set of Stones. Each...
Campus Wahala is a Mancala based card game set in a Nigerian university. Cards either show books (with different values) or characters (each with a unique skill). On their turn, players draw 5 cards from a stack and, starting with their own "locker" (tableau), place one card in each of the next four lockers (clockwise). However, the character cards...
36 balls are evenly distributed into 12 tubes. On your turn, empty a tube and place the balls in the next tubes, one each, going anti-clockwise. If you place a ball in an empty tube on your side you capture that ball and all the balls in your opponent's adjacent tubes. The winner is the first to capture 19 balls, as there are 36 to start with. It's a 3D...