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List Of Mancala Games
Games in the mancala family include: Popular games The most widely played games are probably: * Bao is a complex strategy game of Kenya and Zanzibar, played on a 4×8 board. *Kalah is the ruleset usually included with commercially available boards; however, the game is heavily biased towards the first player, and it is often considered a children's game. The board is 2×6 with stores. The Pie rule can be used to balance the first-player's advantage. *Oware, the national game of Ghana, is also known by Warri,Henry R. Muller, ''Warri: A West African Game of Skill'', The Journal of American Folklore. Vol. 43, No. 169. pp. 313-316. Ayo (Yoruba Name. Nigeria), Awele, Awari, Ouril, and other names. It has relatively simple rules but considerable strategic depth. The board is 2×6 (not counting optional stores). *Omweso (also known as ''coro'') is a strategic game of Uganda, played on a 4×8 board. *Pallanguzhi is played in Tamil nadu, Southern India with 2 x 7 stores. Two varieties o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Game
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Namibia
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Five Tribes (board Game)
Five Tribes is a board game created by Bruno Cathala in which four players move and manipulate the five tribes in an attempt to gain control of the fictional Sultanate of Naqala. Unlike most worker placement games, Five Tribes begins with the Meeples already on the board. The rules are relatively simple, but the game requires complex strategies to outwit opponents and take control of the most land. Gameplay Players will take a set of Camels and turn markers of a color. Each player also takes 50 gold coins, the number of coins a player has is not open knowledge. 30 tiles are randomly placed into a 5x6 grid. Each tile then gets 3 random meeples placed upon it. Players bid for turn order. The player who wins the highest position goes first and will take their full turn before the next player. Each turn, a player selects a tile that has meeples on it, and will take all the meeples on that tile then place them, one at a time, on an adjacent tile that has at least one other meeple o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trajan (game)
Trajan is a board game designed by Stefan Feld and first introduced in 2011 by German publisher ''Ammonit Spieleverlag''. The game takes place in ancient Rome where players try to seize opportunities in business and politics to advance their personal status. It features a mancala The mancala games are 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 ...-style mechanism that each player uses to select an action on each turn. Gameplay Overview The game is set in 110AD with players trying to score victory points in a series of six different "tactical facilities" determined by the mancala-style mechanism. Each section of the mancala determines an action the player may take in its respective area. An additional 'Trajan' tile sits aside every section of the mancala that may be claimed should its conditions be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Space Walk (game)
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Mangala (game)
Mangala is a traditional Turkish mancala game. It is strictly related to the mancala games Iraqi Halusa, Palestinian Al-manqala, and Baltic German Bohnenspiel. There is also another game referred as Mangala played by the Bedouin in Egypt, and Sudan, but it has quite different rules. The game can be traced in Ottoman miniatures starting from the 16th century. According to the Turkish ethnologue Metin And, the "mancala" of The Arabian Nights (fifteenth night) could be directly related to this game. It was first described in 1694 by British orientalist Thomas Hyde. The game was also referred as Mangola in some later western works. The classic mangala game is still known in Turkey, but mangala played in Gaziantep, in Southern Anatolia, is more similar to Syrian mancala La'b Madjnuni (''Crazy Game''). There are many other mancala variants played in Anatolia: Pıç in Erzurum, Altıev in Safranbolu Safranbolu () is a town and district of Karabük Province in the Black Sea regio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kauri (game)
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Oh-Wah-Ree
''Oh-Wah-Ree'' is a mancala variant - a strategy board game designed by Alex Randolph and published in 1962 by 3M as part of their 3M bookshelf game series, bookshelf game line. The name "Oh-Wah-Ree" is taken from ''Oware'', a typical West African game for which it is based on. It is played on a board with a ring of pits and stone playing pieces, distinguished from other mancala variants by the use of a second ring of holes to mark ownership of pits by the players, allowing play between more than two players at a time. The object is to capture the opponents' stones. Gameplay There are many different ''Oh-Wah-Ree'' variations which have their own rules and win conditions. In each version, pebbles are divided equally between the 12 pits. On their turn, a player chooses any one of the pits marked by a marker of their colour and scoops all the pebbles out of it, dropping them one at a time clockwise into adjacent pits. In standard ''Oh-Wah-Ree,'' a player may capture pebbles when their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheapass Games
Cheapass Games is a game company founded and run by game designer James Ernest, based in Seattle, Washington. Cheapass Games operates on the philosophy that most game owners have plenty of dice, counters, play money, and other common board game accessories, so there is no need to bundle all of these components with every game that requires them. Cheapass games thus come packaged in white envelopes, small boxes, or plastic resealable bags containing only those components unique to the game - typically a rules sheet, a playing board printed on card stock, and game cards banded by magazine-cutout "sleeves". This allows the company to produce games for prices well below the market average. Later, Cheapass started offering some higher-quality, full color games under the "James Ernest Games" brand. History Ernest originally developed the idea for selling basic games without all the common components while freelancing at Wizards of the Coast during the 1990s. However, Wizards rejected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devil Bunny Hates The Earth
A devil is the personification of evil as it is conceived in various cultures and religious traditions. It is seen as the objectification of a hostile and destructive force. Jeffrey Burton Russell states that the different conceptions of the devil can be summed up as 1) a principle of evil independent from God, 2) an aspect of God, 3) a created being turning evil (a ''fallen angel''), and 4) a symbol of human evil. Each tradition, culture, and religion with a devil in its mythos offers a different lens on manifestations of evil.Jeffrey Burton Russell, ''The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity'', Cornell University Press 1987 , pp. 41–75 The history of these perspectives intertwines with theology, mythology, psychiatry, art, and literature developing independently within each of the traditions. It occurs historically in many contexts and cultures, and is given many different names—Satan, Lucifer, Beelzebub, Mephistopheles, Iblis—and attri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cups (game)
Cups was one of several games invented in 1965 by father and son Arthur Amberstone and Wald Amberstone who were both cofounders of the New York Gamers Association (N.Y.G.A.). They also invented Power, and High Deck, a card game based on medieval society. At the time both were working as basket makers as well as game designers in New York City. This game was first published in A Gamut of Games by Sid Sackson in 1969. Wald Amberstone co-founded the Tarot School in 1995 along with his wife Ruth Amberstone. The game Cups is a contemporary two-ranked single-lap member of the ancient game family of Mancala. Rules Equipment The Cups board is constructed from ten containers: eight small containers called cups and two large containers called pots. In addition to these, 80 beans are needed. Traditionally, the game is played with odds and ends, jars, drinking cups and assorted items serving as the beans. Setup Each player has four cups in front of him and a pot at the end of each ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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