Hi. My name is Mike Twohig. My wife and I recently started playing Mancala (the general type you with directions from the box, nothing fancy) and we have run...
Hello Mike, my name is Debbie Sumual from Jakarta, Indonesia. Here, we have our own mancala game named "congklak" and I collect them from various places in...
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Jan 5, 2004 8:19 am
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Hi Mike. I would like to add to the advice you got from Debbie in Indonesia. Your question makes sense and yes, there is flexibility in the way you play the...
Thank you Debbie and the mysterious person from Warri Society International. Your responses were very helpful. It seems that we are going to play that you do...
Hi Mike. This is Oba, the 'mysterious person from the Warri Society International'. I'm glad to hear that you and your wife have come to an agreement on what...
Two-dimensional Mancala Traditional Mancala games are one-dimensional circular games. This is a quite remarkable feature as most games are played on two- ...
Hello, I've just joined this group. Perhaps somebody has read the articles on Mancala variants I've written during the last few years, on Vai lung thlan (Mizo...
Das Bohnenspiel ... "Das Bohnenspiel" ("bean game") is an old German Mancala variant. It was described in the "Deutsche Spielhandbuch" in 1937. This "Handbook ...
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Feb 5, 2004 2:52 pm
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Ralf, many thanks for your informed contributions. i was particularly ignorant about the four-rank variants which i am most interested in (i have coded a...
... Welcome Ralf! You stirred up this list a little. A good thing. ... I've got a subscription and I read them all! Good descriptions, good explaining of the...
... I've seen this game played by people coming form Senegal and Gambia, mostly by women and children. As you explain it, it's a traditional game, in germany?...
... There are some more one-dimensional board games, like pachisi or puluc. And there are also some two-dimensional mancala games played in southern China, as...
Hello Rob, ... You know more than I do. I haven't got the issue, probably because the mail takes a little bit longer than usual. ... Yes, I do. ... They are a...
... In English is Catalonia :-) Here you have the rules of one of them, Laomuzhu qi, http://www.manqala.org/rules/mostra.cgi.en?rules/laomuzhu/ Now I've...
Cups ... Cups was invented by Arthur and Wald Amberstone (father and son) in the 1960s who were founding members of the N.Y.G.A. („New York Game Associates")...
Glas Bead Game ... The "Glas Bead Game" was invented in the late 1970s by Christian Freeling who lives in the Netherlands. Its name was taken from Hermann...
... I'll be looking forward to all the rules. ... Eagle). ... Hve you played those too? If so, what are they like? ... OK, I'll send you the draft as soon as I...
... Nice! I never saw it on your site. Why are the mother pigs placed opposite of each other? I thought they had to at the end of each row. I can't see in the...
... Is anyone of you familiar with the game "Rupsenoorlog"? It is described in: http://www.vanmaanen.org/hans/boeken/wolf/rupsenoorlog.html I have made an...
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Hello Rob, ... It is decribed by Joao Neto as "Tours" (French for "Tower") on his Abstract Games homepage because it was decribed in the magazine "Jeux et...
Dear Mancala lovers, today I got AG 16 and Jeux & Stratégie 7 (from 1981!). The latter has an interesting article on Oware by A. Deledicq, while AG 16...
55 Stones ... 55 Stones was invented in the night before All Saints Day 2002 by Ralf Gering, Germany. This Mancala variant is rather unusual: - It seems to be...
Grand Oh-Wah-Ree ... Grand Oh-Wah-Ree is an idea from the famous American game inventor Alex Randolph which can be applied to many different Mancala variants....
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... It's funny! It's good to see that some people know about manqala games enough to write a satire like this. ... I just dislike the last sentence. Too topic...
Taking Cheapshots at the World of Sports >>updated weekly every Wednesday HOME Disclaimers SportsGoons.com is a sports humor and satire site and is intended...
Hello, could you give me the rules of Okwe as played by the Ibo in Nigeria on a 2x20 board? This appears to be a difficult game. Have fun, Ralf and finally... ...
... Ralf, thanks for posting so many rules of different games to this group. And thanks for your articles in Abstract Games, which are great. I am really ...
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