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Mancala most marbles.
Pick up marbles from any of bottom holes and move them counter clockwise.
The game ends when all six holes on either side are empty.
Players alternate turns and attempt to accumulate the most points by accumulating marbles in their respective bins.
Mancala is a game where players sow and capture seeds.
Mancala also known as kalah is an ancient board game.
No free move no automatic move only picking from the side of the board you are sitting next to different number of holes marbles.
The winner is the player with the most.
The point of this game to get the most marbles in your mancala cup.
For example suppose automatic moves and free moves are allowed but you can only place on your side of the board.
Ones your hand is empty it s your opponent s turn.
The game of mancala is played by two players.
If your move ends at your home hole right one you can move again.
There are many different variations of mancala and this implementation includes some of them.
Historians believe that mancala may have originated with the dawn of civilization as a record keeping technique a harvesting ritual or a divination tool.
There s evidence that the game was played thousands of years ago in ancient sumeria modern day iraq in ancient sudan on.
Some of the other mancala rule sets out there include.
The objective is usually to capture all or some set of the opponent s pieces.
Versions of the game date back to the 7th century and evidence suggests the game existed in ancient egypt.
The first player grabs all marbles in any of their holes and drops one by one in succeeding holes in a counter clockwise direction.