While playing Mancala with myself in lockdown is fun for a little while, it's much more fun to have an opponent. If your last marble falls into an empty pot on your side, and the opposite pot has marbles in it, you capture those marbles – clear out both pots and put them in your store to the right.Īnd one last rule – if your last marble falls into your store, you get another turn! On their turn, a player can choose one of their (non-empty) pots, and distribute the marbles in the pot anti-clockwise, one at a time. Anyway, I've always found this variant to be fun and challenging!Įach player controls the six small pots closest to them.
* Although the rules are simple, there are hundreds of variations: from the number of marbles each player starts with, to the rules for capturing, it seems like nobody can agree on the “real” rules. To start with, each small pot is filled with three* marbles. The board looks like thisꜛ: twelve small pots and one big pot on each side. Mancala is an ancient game with really simple rules which I've been playing since I was a kid. But there's always time to play a quick board game. Since graduating last year, my CS has got a bit rusty – working full-time, there's not much time to learn much dense theory.
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