Kalah*

Aim of the game

The board

The pieces

How to play

• Players take turns playing; the first one to play is chosen at random. The player takes all the stones in any pit of his area and distributes them counterclockwise, one in each pit and one in his own bank (the opponent's bank is skipped). The starting pit is left empty.
• The game ends when one player has no stones in any of his pits. When this happens, the opponent moves all the remaining stones into his bank.

Special moves

• If you place your last stone in a move into your bank, you get another move.
• If the last stone of your move is played into a pit on your side of the board that is empty, then that stone and all the stones in the opposite pit (the opponent’s) are placed into your bank.
   

*Mancala Games

“Mancala games may be the oldest board games that are being played today. Some sources say that the game is more than 3000 years old. The origin is unclear but it is assumed that the first games were played in Asia or Africa.

Mancala is a family of games and are also known as count and capture games. There is no element of chance, it is a pure strategy game. Variations are known with more than 200 different names such as: Adji-Boto, Adjito, Awale, Awari, Aware, Awele, Bantumi, Congklak, Dakar, Dao, Dara, Darra, Endovoi, Geshe, Halusa, Jodu, Kalaha, Kalah, Kale, Kalle, Oware, Ot-Tsjin, Solo, Songo Duala, Vai Lung Thlan, Wari, Warri, Wouri.”