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Mancala (Arabic: منقلة manqalah) is a family of two-player turn-based strategy board games played with small stones, beans, 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.
26 Αυγ 2020 · Mancala is a count-and-capture board game with an ancient heritage. There are hundreds of variants found around the world. The playing equipment can be as simple as stones or seeds as the playing pieces and holes dug in soil or boards with holes as holding cups.
1 Απρ 2021 · Mancala games are commonly defined by the appearance of the boards and mode of moving the pieces. The similarities have led to the belief that most mancala games are historically related...
Mancala is one of the oldest two-player strategy games in the world and has been played throughout Asia and Africa for over 7.000 years. Earlier version of Mancala games used primitive tools constructed of wood or clay, or the game board were carved in stone.
3 Φεβ 2024 · Mancala is thought to be among the oldest two-player board games, known to be played in ancient Africa around 700 AD, with early evidence found in Eritrea and Ethiopia. It is thought its true origins could go back much further, although evidence for it being played is uncertain.
18 Ιαν 2019 · Mancala Origin and History. Mancala is one of the oldest known two-player board games in the world. It is believed that the game began in ancient Africa. Evidence of the ancient board game has been found dating back to the year 700 AD.
Egyptian history Mancala games were at first considered an African game (Culin 1894), an idea that resonated with several scholars in the twentieth century, associating Africa as the cradle of human evolution and adding Africa as the origin of the first board games.
