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List of mancala games

Games in the mancala family include:

Popular games

The most widely played games are probably:

• Oware, the national game of Ghana, is also known by Warri, Awele, Awari, Ouril, and other names. It has relatively simple rules but considerable strategic depth.
• 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.
• Omweso is a strategic game of Uganda, played on an 8×4 board.
• Bao is a complex strategy game, also played on an 8×4 board.

Games with unusual features

• Eson xorgol, a game from Kazakhstan, is traditionally played with goat feces.
• Das Bohnenspiel is a German mancala based on simple African mancalas.
• //Hus is a Namibian game which, although a perfect information game, has sometimes been classified as a game of chance.

Other games

• Chongkak (Malaysia)
• Mak Khom (Siam)
• Mancal
• Mancala (Syria)
• La'b Madjnuni
• La'b Hakimi
• La'b Akila
• La'b Roseya
• Mancala (Egypt)
• Mangala (Nubia)
• Gambatta (Abyssinia)
• Abangah (Niam-Niam in Sudan)
• Toee (Bongo in Sudan)
• Kale (Gabun)
• Madji (Benni in Nigeria)
• Poo (Liberia)
• Kapo (Senegal)
• Choro
• Pereauni
• Bao (Kenya)
• Mbau (Kenya)
• Mbau (Kilimanjaro region)
• Isafu
• Chanka (India, Sri Lanka)
• Naranj
• Chuncajon (Philippines)
  • Stewart Culin, Philippine Games, American Anthropologist, Vol. 2, No. 4. (Oct-Dec 1900), pp. 643-656.
• Wawee (Leeward Islands)
• Chuba (USA)
• Ba-awa (Ghana)
• Contu-Holo (Djuka in Dutch Guiana)
• Hus
• Chungeajon (Philippines)
• Gabatta (Abyssinia)
• Bau (Wa Chaga)
• Isafuba
• Halusa (Mesopotamia)
• Mandoli (Island of Hydra)
• Baqura (Mesopotamia)
• Li'b al-ghashim
• Beatta (Arabia, Teyma)
• Khutka boia (India, Punjab)
• Pachgarhwa (India)
• Mawkar katiya (Assam)
• Cherrapunji (Khasis)
• Vai lung thlan (Lushei Kuki clan in Assam)
• Longbeu-a-cha (Assam)
• Kubuguza
  • Alan P. Merriam, The Game of Kubuguza Among the Abatutsi of North-East Ruanda. Man, Vol. 53. (November 1953), pp. 169-172.
• Kanj guti (Orissa)
• Til guti
• Pallankuli (Tamils in India)
• Sat-gol (India)
• Puhulmuti (Sri Lanka)
• Walak-pussa (Sri Lanka)
• Kotu-baendum (Sri Lanka)
• Daramutu (Sri Lanka)
• Ellaewala-kanda (Sri Lanka)
• Meusueb (Achehn in Sumatra)
• Meuta' (Achehn in Sumatra)
• Meuchoh (Achehn in Sumatra)
• Meulieh (Achehn in Sumatra)
• Bajangkaq (Sumatra)
• Kaloleh (Sumatra)
• Dakon (Java)
• Mechiwa (Bali)
• Matoe (Soemba)
• Sai (Flores)
• Chonka (Borne)
• Aw-li on-nam ot-tjin (Borneo)
• Galatjang (Celebes)
• Dara-dara (Celebes)
• Agsinnoninka (Philippines)
• Ingilith (Turkana)
• Warri (Nigeria)
• Toguz korgool (Kyrgyzstan)

• Songo
  • P. H. G. Powell-Cotton, H. J. Braunholtz, A Mancala Board Called "Songo.", Man. Vol. 31. (July 1931), pp. 123.
• Mefuvha
  • H. A. Stayt, The Bavenda.
• Ouril (Cape Verde)

Information about most of these games can be found in one of the following,

• HJR Murray, History of Board Games other than Chess (1952)
• Laurence Russ,