mancala

Also known as count-and-capture game, sowing game

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History
Etymology
General gameplay
Equipment
Objective
Capturing
Names and variants
Psychology
Competition
Mancala at the Mind Sports Olympiad
See also
References
Further reading

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Mancala ( manqalah) is a family of two-player turn-based strategy board games played with small stones, beans, marbles or seeds and rows of holes or pits in the earth, a board or other playing surface. The objective is usually to capture all or some set of the opponent's pieces.