#MANCALA RULES FREE#

This score one point and enables you an additional turn. It's ideal to open with your 3rd hole because now your last stone lands in your mancala.

Take now all 3 stones (green, red and blue) and place them in your store (mancala). Like said above: if you drop the last stone into an empty pit on your side of the board, you capture all of the pieces in the pit directly across from it on your opponent's side of the board.īy dropping the green stone into the empty pit, you will capture the two stones (red and blue) on the other side of the board. The game continues with players alternating turns. If you capture stones, place them directly in your Mancala (store).Īfter you do dropped all your stones (and capture any stones,) your turn is over. If the last stone you drop in in an empty pit, you capture the stones and any stones in the pit directly across from it on your opponent's side of the board.

#MANCALA RULES FREE#

If the last stone you drop is in your own store, you get a free turn. If you run into your opponent's store, skip it. If you drop a stone into your own store, deposit it and that stone is safe. In a counter-clockwise direction, the player now deposit one stone into each pit. The starting player choose a pit on his side of the board and pick up all the stones. Have most stones in your mancala after all the stones on one side of the gameboard are captured. The six small holes on your side of the game board belong to you.Įach player places 4 stones (of every color) in each of his 6 pits. The Mancala-board is made up of two rows of six holes or pits.

Players sit opposite to each other with the game board in between. Folding Wood board with 2 rows of 6 pits (holes).There are about 300 different Mancala games, some versions are simple like Kalah or Oware but others like Omweso or Bao can be very complicated as they are played on two boards and sometimes played in a reverse direction. Mancala is a name given to a large family of 'Pit and Seeds' or 'Count, Sow and Capture' games - one of the oldest games known.

Mancala rules