MANCALA - BOARD GAME

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A game from the mancala family known as oware, awale, awele, wari.A game for two players played on a board of 2x6 holes (fields), each of which initially contains 4 pebbles.One row of holes is for one player, the other for the other.Sowing pebblesPlayers take turns taking turns.The move consists in taking pebbles from one hole of your own row and "sowing" them, one by one, around the board in a counter-clockwise direction.If sowing "makes a full circle", the hole from which they were taken is omitted.If the last pebble sown is in the opponent's hole and there are two or three of them there, they are captured.If the previous holes before the last one also contain two or three pebbles, they are also captured - all from the opponent's holes until a hole with a different number of pebbles than two or three.Special casesIf, after sowing the pebbles, all the pebbles in the opponent's holes are to be captured, depriving him of the opportunity to make a move, then capturing does not take place - the pebbles remain in the holes.If the opponent is left without pebbles, a move is required to give him pebbles to make his next move. If there is no such move, the game ends and the remaining stones are counted on the account of the player with them.EndThe object of the game is to capture more pebbles than your opponent.Capturing more than half of the pebbles by one of the players automatically ends the game and means victory.Repeating the situation on the board three times also ends the game. Each of the remaining stones is then counted against the account of the player on whose side it is.If players get the same number of pebbles, there is a draw.