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Mancala

Mancala (Arabic: منقلة manqalah) is a family of two-player turn-based strategy board games played with small stones, beans, marbles or seeds and rows of holes or pits in the earth, a board or other playing surface. The objective is usually to capture all or some set of the opponent's pieces.

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Names and variants

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General gameplay

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Etymology

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Mancala

Nodes104
Edges103
Triples182
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.019231
Components1

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Mancala

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related to Names and variants · 71
Mancala → All, Ashanti, Ayo, Bao, Bayan, Brunei, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Caribbean, Casitas, Catalonia, Comoros, Congklak, Dakon, Dominican Republic, DR Congo, East Africa, El Hoyito, England
related to Further reading · 52
Mancala → Africa, Africain, African, African Mankala, Anthropological Perspective, Bao, Board-Games, Book, British Museum Press, Cambridge University Press, Cedic, Chess, Clarendon Press, Culin, Current Anthropology, Da Capo, Deledicq, Erickson, French, Games
related to history · 34
Mancala → Abu, According, AD, Aghani, Ain Ghazal, Aksumite, Among, BCE, Book, Earth, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Evidence, Faraj, Gebet'a, Gedera, Geʽez, Giyorgis, Heaven
related to General gameplay · 9
Mancala → After, Although, English, If, Most, Once, Players, The, This
related to Psychology · 8
Mancala → Bao, CHREST, De Voogt, Fernand Gobet, Like, Restchitzki's, Retschitzki, Some
related to Competition · 3
Mancala → Grand Prix, Mind Sports Olympiad, Several
related to Objective · 3
Mancala → At, The, This
related to Etymology · 2
Mancala → Arabic, The

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Mancalarelated to CompetitionSeveral0.60section
Mancalarelated to CompetitionMind Sports Olympiad0.60section
Mancalarelated to CompetitionGrand Prix0.60section
Mancalarelated to EtymologyThe0.60section
Mancalarelated to EtymologyArabic0.60section
Mancalarelated to Further readingCulin0.60section
Mancalarelated to Further readingStewart0.60section
Mancalarelated to Further readingNational Game0.60section
Mancalarelated to Further readingAfrica0.60section
Mancalarelated to Further readingWashington0.60section
Mancalarelated to Further readingGovernment Printing Office0.60section
Mancalarelated to Further readingErickson0.60section

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