To: Mancala Discussion Group At the MSO Cambridge event in Cambridge UK last month we had a Bao tournament with 8 players, the winner was Daxon Masiyano from...
Hi all, some time ago I was posted a game from Fred Horn. This game was a mancala game that he invented himself. I translated the rules and uploaded the...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the mancalagames group. File : /The snake...
mancalagames@yahoogro...
Jun 4, 2004 3:25 pm
175
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the mancalagames group. File : /Snake...
mancalagames@yahoogro...
Jun 4, 2004 3:28 pm
176
Hello Viktor, please explain us a little bit more how Wiki works. I tried it but cannot understand your explanation at ...
Hello, there are now 30 modern Mancala variants described at http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mancalagames/links/Modern_Mancala_ 001076091057/ Ralf...
Spiced-up Oware Variants The famous American game inventor Alex Randolph created the first spiced-up Oware which he called Grand Coastal Oh-Wah-Ree. It was ...
... I just acquired a copy of Space Walk, and I must say that it's a beautifully produced game. Ravensburger seldom disappoints with their productions, and I...
I have uploaded a text file to the "Files" area called "teaparty.txt". Due to ASCII diagrams within the text, teaparty.txt is best viewed in a fixed-width...
Kid-Cala Kid-Cala is a series of three games which was published by University Games Europe in Maastricht. Link: http://www.ug.nl/ "Klassieke mancala" is the...
... Hi, Ralf! I had a bit of trouble balancing the game. As it is, Sugar almost always wins, but by a small margin. If I reduce the number of Sugar Cubes to...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the mancalagames group. File : /Mancala...
mancalagames@yahoogro...
Jun 19, 2004 7:09 pm
185
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the mancalagames group. File : /Mancala...
mancalagames@yahoogro...
Jun 19, 2004 7:11 pm
186
Ralf, I notice in your mancala games list in the group files area that there is reference to a Malagasy (Betsileo) game called Katro played on a 6 row board. I...
Hi Steve, Katra / Katro appears to be a generic name (i.e. a name for Malagasy Mancala variants). There is a simple version played on a 6x3 board and a rather ...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the mancalagames group. File : /Mancala...
mancalagames@yahoogro...
Jun 20, 2004 9:36 am
189
Hi Ralf & Alex, Thanks for the prompt response, Ralf, and thanks Alex for the info on Board Games Studies. I bought the IIAS "New Approaches to Board Games...
Dear Steve, this is a very short description of the rules: 1. The board is 6x6. 2. Each player owns one half (upper or lower) of the board. 3. Initially there...
In Space Walk, the rules say that a token may be spent either at the end of your own turn (either to sow again immediately or to move one of your own pieces...
Hello, I asked Rüdiger to clarify the Space Walk rules. He was so kind to help us immediately. I provide the translation and comments. ... Hello Ralf Gering, ...
The published two-person variant of Space Walk proved to be unplayable because the second player could imitate the first player's moves and thereby get an easy...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the mancalagames group. File : /Mancala...
mancalagames@yahoogro...
Jun 25, 2004 1:34 pm
196
are here: http://manqala.org/wiki/index.php/MancalaGames/SpaceWalk (Many recent changes: The endgame rules differs from what I thought previously.) BTW the...
If you live in the USA, you could perhaps help me. I need the rules of two games. The "Mancala Gallery" at http://www.abstractstrategy.com/mancala-g.html shows...
Hello, Dan Troyka, the inventor of Cross-Wari was so kind to point me at the following websites: http://www.aardwolfgames.com/rules/swahili/index.pdf ...
Ralf (and Rüdiger), Thank you both for clarifying the Space Walk rules! The question came up in a three-player game when one player wanted to spend a chip to ...
I have recently been playing Kristin Looney's mancala-like game "Volcano" fairly often: http://wunderland.com/WTS/Kristin/Games/Volcano.html Volcano is a...
... Ralf, The full rules are not posted, but there is an entry about "Pass It On" on the BoardGameGeek web site that includes a brief description and a couple...