MANCALA

Mancala

Mancala is a family of board games played around the world, sometimes called "sowing" games, or "count-and-capture" games, which describes the gameplay. The word mancala comes from the Arabic word naqala meaning literally "to move." No one game exists with the name mancala; the name is a classification or type of game. This word is used in Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt, but is not consistently applied to any one game.

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mancala

Noun

  1. A generic name applied to various board games in which a move consists of emptying a pit and then its contents are sown one by one into ensuing pits
  2. A synonym for Kalah, a mancala game invented in the USA in 1940


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