... Hi Ralf, certainly they can and they should ... i agree it is impossible for some to do *well* but when such people do (as they often do) their work isn't...
... Hi Ralf, i'm from Malawi, living in London for the moment. i doubt that i can add to your immense knowledge of Mancala games - i've been seeing your...
Micro-Wari Micro-Wari was invented by Assia Popova (a Russian) and André Deledicq (a French) in 1977. The game is one of the smallest Mancala variants in...
22 Mancala variants are now described at http://manqala.org/wiki/index.php/MancalaGames If you see any mistakes (including spelling, bad expressions ...), ...
How Germany is supporting to break her own Laws... Or: A History of Bao in Germany. Many years ago a game company started to sell Bao in Germany. They became...
Hello, I will give a Mancala workshop at the "1rst Afrika Fest" (Africa Festival) in Sinzig (Bootshaus), between Bonn and Koblenz, Germany next weekend. THE...
... Congratulations!!!! I also would like to share with all of you another activity: http://www.manqala.org/festiwale/2004/info.html It will be the 6th...
On Larry Russ book on mancala games there is a chapter about "capturing by fours on Africa". Is there any information about capturing by fours in America? I...
Hello, the Mancala workshop was a great success. Probably there will be one or two youth groups in our area playing Mancala. I played Oware against Africans...
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Hello, I believe this is the best map showing the distribution of Mancala. I drew the map in the last few days. Legend ... red line: traditional Manqala...
A Dimecres 18 Agost 2004 18:50, Ralf va escriure: First of all, a good map. Now, the comments, corrections and questions :-) ... In Northern Congo-Kinshasa is...
... Iran: Katharina II., Empress of Russia, received a Mancala board from the Persian Shah wich is now in a museum in Saint Petersburg (the famous Ermitage) ...
Dear Viktor, ... I should have added one more explanation. I considered minor variants still as one game. For instance, there are many variants of Oware in...
... Unfortunately this says nothing about the popularity of the game. Maybe it was just something played by arabized upper classes, maybe it was (is) a ...
... the Persian ... Ermitage) ... game. Maybe it ... (is) a ... mancala game in ... about ... The game could have become obsolete since the reign of Katharina...
... Both are cited by Murray, as well as two others. ... Sure! But what Gupta found (as quoted by Murray) is only from present day India. ... One (aestethical)...
Dear Ralf and Viktor, As much as I enjoy the discussion on the map of mancala, which in itself is of course very interesting, the main thing is that much...
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Dear Viktor and Alex, let me say, that the map is at most a guess and that I posted it to welcome any corrections you can offer. I need to redraw it, but, for ...
Dear Mancala lovers, ... Murray gives two Kale variants: (p.183) no sequences of holes are taken (p.184) two or four beans are captured Both variants differ...
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... The only one he cites played by Fang people. He says that "usually" the players do not take the contents of an unbroken sequence. Not that it was the only...
I've posted another Saharian game, from the same book, on the wiki. Right now, this is the list of traditional games posted on the wiki: * Aw-li On-nam Ot-tjin...
... Interesting! Do you know which subgroup of Fang this kind of Kale plays? I met a Fang last week-end, but Toni only played Songo (and he learnt to play ...
... I have just tried Krur twice and a problem arose in the second game: If nobody has captured the first hole of his opponent, seeds remain at the end of the...
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