Galo da Madrugada is the biggest carnival block on the planet. In this simple mancala game based on the carnival block, players try to collect "Foliões" (the people who participate in the block during the carnival). Each round, players seed markers (as usual in a mancala), and where the last marker ends, a card is collected, representing a person...
ガーリックガールズ (garlic girls) is a Kalah (mancala)- style game from Japan. The players, as junior high school girls getting hungry after school, enter a mysterious Chinese restaurant called "Mancala-tei". You can freely add toppings to create the ideal ramen, but take care to avoid eating too much garlic served by the hospitable manager and losing points! On...
A mancala game. From Mancala World: http://mancala.wikia.com/wiki/Giuthi "Giuthi ("to place", "to distribute") is a mancala game of the Kikuyu and the Embu in Kenya. It was a popular pastime of young boys when they were herding cattle of goats. The game is almost forgotten today. There were special terms for certain moves and various holes, but no one...
The Glass Bead Game was created by the Dutch game inventor Christian Freeling in the late 1970s. It was named after the final novel of the German writer Hermann Hesse which was published in 1943 ("Das Glasperlenspiel"). Hesse was put on the Black List of the Nazis while living as a refugee in Switzerland. After continental Europe was liberated, Hesse was...
ゴープラム 踊る彫刻 (Gopuram Dancing Sculpture) is a game from Japan in which players are constructing a Gopuram. This is an entrance tower at a Hindu temple in Southern India. The tower is covered in elaborate, colourful statues of dancing Hindu gods. The players are the sculptors, seeking inspiration as they construct their own Gopuram. The game has a set of...
ハリネズミは時計回りに (Hedgehog go around clockwise) is a puzzle-like board game from Japan that mixes elements of the traditional game Mancala and drafting dice. The game has polyhedral dice in different colours (d6, d10, d20). Players are alchemistic hedgehogs who go around collecting dice on their spines, to deliver them to their storerooms and laboratories. Each...
A manqala game. From Wikimanqala: http://www.wikimanqala.org/wiki/Hoyito_I "These are the rules of the more well-considered hoyito game. It was recorded as being played in Barahona, Neiba, Villa Jaragua, Los Ríos, Postrer Río, La Descubierta and Port-au-Prince. It's a two players game. It is played on a board made by two rows of six holes (other sizes were...
A manqala game. From Wikimanqala: http://www.wikimanqala.org/wiki/Hoyito_II "These are the rules of the not so well considered hoyito game. This form of hoyito was recorded as played in Barahona and its countryside, Villa Jaragua, La Descubierta, Jimaní, Port-au-Prince and Jacmel. It is almost equal to ba-awa and other African games, except the fact that a...
A mancala game. From Mancala World: http://mancala.wikia.com/wiki/Huroy Huroy is a mancala game played by the Mursi people in the lower Omo valley, Ethiopia, at Ulichagi and Bilugu. They live in one of the least accessible areas of Ethiopia and many of them are heavily armed with guns. The game is a recreation of adult males who play in the shade of trees....