
	Where results make sense

Topic: Mancala

Related Topics

Kalah

List of game topics

List of mancala games

Eson xorgol

Oware

Board game

List of board games

Jim Perry (television)

Wedge product

Sai

Wari

XDMCP

Morgan County

Foreign relations of Ukraine

Geothermal heating

	Mancala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mancala is a family of board games played around the world, sometimes called sowing games or count and capture games, which comes from the general gameplay.
		Mancala games share a general gameplay sequence of picking up all seeds from a hole (the strategy), then sowing seeds one at a time from a hole, and capturing based on the state of board.
		Mancala is wholly mathematical, akin to the game of drawing pebbles from a pile in an endeavor to win the last, but so complex as to remain a real contest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mancala (1490 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Mancala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		A mancala game is a board game which has a series of holes arranged in a number of rows (usually 2 or 4), each hole containing a number of seeds (or stones).
		The USA has a larger mancala playing population, although many of these players are descendants of slaves imported from Africa.
		It is unknown where or when the game of mancala was originally invented, although Ethiopia is currently considered the most likely source.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ma/Mancala (267 words)

	Mancala Games: Wari, Oware, Owari, Woro, Awele, Kboo, Kbo, Ayo, Ayoayo, Kale, Aghiale, Aghi, Nam-Nam: presented by ...
		Mancala is the name of a family of games generally involving rows of holes ("cups") in which rest pieces which are moved about by players with the object of capturing the most stones by the end of the game.
		The name "Mancala" comes from the Arabic word "naqala" which means "to move" -- this tempts us to believe its origins are in Arabia, and in fact, ancient boards have been found in that area, and in Egypt, with the remains of something like a mancala board having been found in Cheops pyramid.
		And, of course, mancala would first have been played without a board at all -- as it is these days in many places around the world -- with holes made in the sand or soil, or circles scratched onto any surface, and played with pebbles or seeds or whatever is handy nearby.
	www.ccgs.com /games/mancala.htm (1447 words)

	Mancala, Oware, Bao - Online Guide
		Mancala may well be the oldest board game in the world since, like Morris variations, it can be easily played with whatever medium happens to be around.
		Mancala variations are played all over Africa, the two rank Mancala board generally being found north of the equator, the four rank boards, South of the Equator.
		Mancala is played by literally hundreds of tribes throughout Africa, most of whom play their own slightly different variation and have their own special name for it.
	www.tradgames.org.uk /games/Mancala.htm (881 words)

	Rules of MANCALA
		OBJECT: Collect the most stones in your mancala (mancalas are the large bowls at each end of the board).
		The other player (who still has stones on his side) places all remaining stones into his own mancala (it is not necessarily an advantage to be the first player to empty the six bowls).
		The remaining stones on the other player's side are not placed in a mancala, and are not counted in determining a winner.
	www.centralconnector.com /GAMES/mancala.html (630 words)

	Mancala
		Mancala may well be the oldest game in the world.
		Players do not drop stones into their opponents' mancalas, they skip them and continue dropping stones, one at a time, from their hand until they run out of stones.
		If a player drops the last stone into one of the occupied opponents' bowls, he takes the stones from that bowl, including the one which was just dropped in it, and drops them counter-clockwise in the same way.
	www.wimos.com /mancala.html (539 words)

	Games of Towers - THE MANCALA FAMILY
		Mancala is a common name to identify a set of games with the same mechanics and goals, much like the Moku, Checkers, Go or Chess family.
		Mancala is possibly the oldest abstract game concept, perhaps more than 3500 years old (there are boards carved in Egyptian temples from around 1400BC).
		Mancala boards resemble the Abacus and eventually their origins may be intertwined, the latter for accounting, the former for playing (the first example of recreational mathematics?).
	www.di.fc.ul.pt /~jpn/gv/mancala.htm (911 words)

	Mancala Game > Mancala 2000 PC MAC Shareware > Free Mancala Download
		Mancala 2000 is based on the ancient game Bao (known later as Mancala), first played in East Africa.
		Mancala is played by many tribes throughout Africa, most of whom play their own slightly different variation and have their own special name for it such as:
		The Mancala board is typical of a Ugandan board while the other board is more ornate folding up to show a carved elephant and give a carrying handle.
	www.tabberer.com /sandyknoll/more/mancala2000/mancala2000.html (519 words)

	Everyone Cooperates Means Success (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The large pocket-- called the Mancala --to your right is yours.
		Include your Mancala as a space as you place the stones in the pockets.
		He would now take that stone and the stones that are in A4 and place all those stones in his Mancala.
	www.freehomepages.com /jestewart65/PE/12groupgamesmancala.htm (328 words)

	Mancala Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Mancala was mentioned in the book Born Free, where Joy Adamson describes a myth that lions would play, creating the board by making depressions in sandy ground with their paws.
		Mancala games are usually played on wooden boards with rows of cups or holes which contain seeds or similar pieces.
		It is a four-rank mancala game, with 8 holes in each row, and it is a "multi-lap" game with the possibility of several sowings on each move.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /paul.smith25/mindsports/mancala.html (3445 words)

	Mancala
		Mancala is the oldest known board game played in its original form.
		Stone Mancala boards have been found carved into the roofs of temples in Memphis, Thebes and Luxor - the game was definitely being played in Egypt before 1400BC.
		The two best known Mancala games are Ayo from Nigeria and Wari which is played without much variation across West Africa and much of the Caribbean.
	www.natashascafe.com /html/mancala.html (164 words)

	Mancala 3000 by Arthur Crump
		It's a nice, straightforward Mancala, nothing fancy, but not spartanic either (you can even select the background color), it runs in 256 colors under Windows 9.x, it is shareware.
		Mancala 3000 was originally called Mancala 2000 and had exactly the same graphics as Wari 2000.
		In 2000 it was re-released 32-bit only, and still in the same year it got new graphics and a new name, probably to avoid confusion with Seth Tabberer's Mancala 2000, at the same time suggesting a superiority that is not entirely justified.
	members.chello.at /theodor.lauppert/games/mancala4.htm (129 words)

	Learn More About Mancala/Wari (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Mancala, or Wari is a game whose variations are played throughout sub-tropical Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and the West Indies.
		"Mancala" was originally an Arabic word and is the generic name used by anthropologists for this huge family of games.
		The earliest known mention of Mancala in Europe is in a description of West Africa in Richard Jobson's Golden Trade (1623).
	www.historicgames.com /learnmore/manc.html (390 words)

	MANCALA
		Mancala is considered to be the most ancient board game on Earth; believed to have originated in Ancient Africa circa 1400 BC.
		Mancala is not a game of chance or luck but simple and intriguing logic that can be played by young and old alike.
		Our Mancala board games are made from the same quality hardwoods as our blocks and come with: 50 multi colored glass nuggets for playing pieces, a sturdy drawstring bag to hold them in, playing instructions, and a lifetime guarantee.
	www.greenmountainblocks.com /MancalaBody.html (269 words)

	Mancala Web v2.0 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Mancala games are among those ancient games that last and last because the rules to play are simple, but the subtleties of winning take a long time to master.
		Mancala is played with seven pits -- six playing pits plus one score pit, the Kalaha -- per player.
		The computer player for this version of Mancala was written by Geoffrey Irving.
	imagiware.com /mancala (378 words)

	List of mancala games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oware, the national game of Ghana, is also known by Warri, Ayo, Awele, Awari, Ouril, and other names.
		Das Bohnenspiel is a German mancala based on a Persian game not unlike some African mancala variants.
		Bao (mancala game) (Kenya) The board is 4×8.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_mancala_games (394 words)

	Mancala Game
		Object: 2 players compete against each other to collect as many marbles in their Mancala (tuna can) as they can before one of the players clears his side of the egg carton of all its marbles.
		If he reaches the end of his side, he is to drop one marble in his Mancala, then continue around to the other side of the board.
		He is not, however, to drop a marble in his opponent's Mancala.
	www.ci.tacoma.wa.us /envirokids/Projects/mancalagame.htm (451 words)

	Oware - Played all over the world
		Mancala: From the Arabic word Mankaleh meaning to move.
		It is often forgotten that there is a variant of Oware called Mancala because it is so often used as a generic name for all Count and Capture games amongst academics.
		At the start the board is arranged with 3 seeds in each house, but there are variants that are played with 4,5 and 7 in each house at the start of the game.
	www.oware.org /mancala.asp (495 words)

	MANCALA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The game known as Mancala is a type of race game that involves placing stones or beans in a set of hollows that are often arranged in a 4x12 grid, although many variations exist ranging from 2x8 to 4x26.
		Mancala was played without dice and might have been a precursor to Senet, making it possibly the oldest board game of all.
		Boards similar to Mancala boards have been unearthed in Nabatea, including the city of Petra, but attempts to link the Nabatean game with Mancala have been unsuccessful.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/w/x/wxk116/roma/mancala.htm (175 words)

	Mancala \| The Real Games Company
		Mancala is probably the oldest game known to mankind.
		Stone mancala boards were found in the pyramids.
		This game of Mancala has a folding wooden board which makes it easy to take with you on holiday as well as for storage.
	realgamescompany.com /product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=58 (126 words)

	Using Genetic Programming to Play Mancala
		Mancala (also called Owari) is a two-player ancient African board game with many different variations.
		To evaluate the fitness of each program, two games of mancala were run between it and the depth-first search algorithm - one in which the depth-first search went first, and one in which it went second.
		The DFS may be a generally good algorithm for playing mancala, but evolving a solution to beat it doesn't necessarily produce a solution that is a generally good algorithm.
	www.corngolem.com /john/gp/project.html (1703 words)

	Lesson Plan: Art of Africa - Paper Mache Mancala Boards
		Mancala is a math strategy game played throughout Africa.
		See back view of Giraffe to see how necks were hollowed out some what for the mancala end cup.
		The Mancala 'board' is made up of two rows of six holes each.
	www.princetonol.com /groups/iad/lessons/middle/Lessons/7mancala.htm (976 words)

	Mancala
		Mancala is sometimes called sowing games or count and capture games, which comes from the general gameplay.
		Mancala is one of the world's oldest and most popular games where the object is to get the most stones into your large hollow.
		Mancala Deluxe is a high quality edition of the ancient game Mancala.
	www.directsource-games.com /mancala.html (424 words)

	Mancala - The Ancient African Stone Game
		The wooden center piece flips, so on one side you will be able to play Mancala, and the other side has the Uthini Game.
		The carved base is molded from recycled plastic and the surface of the wood board has a non-toxic finish.
		Mancala, the 3000 year old African Stone Game, is increasing in popularity and is now played all over the world.
	www.bgamers.com /mancala.htm (201 words)

	www.myspace.com/mancala
		People unfamiliar with mancala games commonly assume there is a particular game with the name "mancala." This perception is helped by marketing which often fails to differentiate variations or gives names like "Ethiopian" or "Nigerian".
		In fact, the word "mancala" is the Arab name commonly given to some games of this type; the word comes from the Arabic word "naqala" (literally "to move").
		Mancala is also a funky rock band from Washington State.
	www.myspace.com /mancala (1081 words)

	CS572 Final Project -- Reinforcement Learning with Mancala
		Mancala, as a game of interest to the authors, provides a relatively large state space with at most 48
		Mancala is a fully observable, stochastic, episodic, static, discrete, and competitive-multi-agent environment.
		This is an interface which specifies the methods that a mancala board must implement to properly control the game state and interact with our mancalaGame.
	www.public.iastate.edu /~cstras/cs572project/cs572project-webpage.html (2455 words)

	Introducing Mancala
		This game of Mancala found on the third CD of the series is played just like on the rules found on some Mancala games.
		There is also a Mancala board with a african village and one with a different shape board and background but the same rules.
		Mancala is also knowen as other names in Africa and rules vary.
	www.game-club.com /cover1/introman.htm (243 words)

	Mancala - Board Game Central
		Mancala is not a single game, but a whole category of games.
		Mancala games all evolved from ancient African pastimes, and all share a similar gameboard consisting of a series of shallow holes, with game pieces called "seeds".
		Mancala games are generally for two players only.
	www.boardgamecentral.com /games/mancala.html (432 words)

	Captive Passage - Departure
		Mancala may be the oldest game in the world since it can be played with whatever medium happens to be available.
		It is played by hundreds of tribes throughout Africa, most of whom play their own variation and have their own special name for it.
		Some of the names for Mancala are associated with the region.
	www.mariner.org /captivepassage/departure/dep006.html (516 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)