How to play Mancala 

There is many variations of the game

same here exactly

That’s how I learned too

Yes that is how we play it

right! Thats how I used to play it.. I was like something is different & thats what it is.. I guess ppl play different but thats how I remember playing it.

Thanks for watching. Enjoy your game. 😁

Same

Fattt samee

What's the app called?

It's actually African though bro.

he cheated, he knew he could get that honey pot so he didn't move it as the other player would have done so to prevent him getting all those points.

I am screaming 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Thanks. I mention in the video there a lot of different rules but so many people who comment are quick to tell me the rules I’ve told them are wrong. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Also at 2:49 he made the same mistake

@@rukiakuchiki5136 I think you don't take the opposing pit if you land on opponents empty pot, it has to be on your side

@@intercitty I thought he landed on his own pit?? 🤔 Then again I could have gotten confused in the mess of it all, with him being his own opponent and all...😂

Ezekiel Ortega Bruh me too😂💀

Ezekiel Ortega same

Ezekiel Ortega FIGHT ME IM THE BEST IN MANCALA I GOT A AWARD

Hope it helped you out. I've never seen this game on iMessage, how do you get it / play it?

You can get it on the app store and the app is called GamePidgeon

That's how I remember it too. I guess there's just different versions?

Robert Clark We only play it if your stone falls in the end pit. There's a million (ok maybe not that many) different ways people play this which is what I say at the start of the video. Thanks for watching.

That's the stripped back version, Robert. Good for playing with kids or those not capable of forming strategy.

Yeah, kind of sounds like you'd just take your turn and then virtually clear the whole board as soon as you start if you were playing like that.

Cogan video

That is how I remember playing as a kid as well.

Bruh

he said there's hundreds of variations

Still is.

Yeah, a bit of confusion when playing as 2 people. 🙂

+Daisy Olivares No idea. There are so many different names and variations. Let’s come up with a name - ‘last pit stone grab’ sounds good.

Same I also played this way but it’s kind a unfair for whoever goes first

*unfair for whoever goes second

@@edaniel3155 in this variation you only keep going if the 'pit' with stones is on *your* side and you must take all the stones from the same pit on the next turn ONLY if you choose so... at least that's how I remember.

Thanks for watching and the feedback. I always credit other creators where required. That intro was an very old addition but from memory there was no credit needed, there are many songs within the RU-vid library that require no credit but if it does then ill be happy to add it in. There was a change to all video descriptions en mass on the channel so maybe it was lost during that action.

For u to capture the stones the pit needs to be empty on ur side

wow look cool

You can buy it online or if you have a couple of egg boxes then you can use those, there are tutorials online showing you how to make a DIY version.

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Don’t be confused, it was just complicated playing as 2 people.

Thanks for watching, glad you like. 👍🏼

The winner is the person with the most stones in their pit at the end of the game so this needs to be factored into your tactics. The person isn’t losing by the other clearing their side, they’re potentially winning, depending on their strategy.

@@CoganYT Thanks. I've seen so many videos this past few hours and they all have differing rules! lol For example: I saw some folks dropping their last stone into an empty pocket and didn't bother stealing the other players stones. lol

@@sylvia4425 Yeah, I think there are hundreds of variations of this game.

You can only pick up the seeds from your pits but when they go around the other players side you can continue to place them in those.

@@CoganYT so if you continue round and finish in an empty pit with seeds on your side do you get to take them?

In the version I play, the pit you land in has to be empty if you are to take your opponents stones on the opposite side.

Just Play So does it have to be on the last move that you can land in an empty space (remember on the last move) that it is a legal move to take my opponents stones.

Silent&RelaxingVideos yes

You get one move per turn normally, if you gain an extra move from a move then this rule still applies.

And still another variation that I learned in Spain and have been playing ever since then: If your last piece lands in one of your own empty pits, you have the OPTION of moving the opponents pieces in the pit directly across the board to your pit, but your turn ends, AND, play ends when one players side is empty. That player gets all the pieces left in the opponents pits. Many variations- so little time.

Cool. How did you make it? I’ve seen people use egg carton and stones or marbles before.

Cogan it’s not my board

Share your English It was on the sheet that cake with the game, I guess some of these variations are very slight for there to be 800.

And didn’t take the empty spots stones

cory gilpin He’s a total idiot.

Yeah, it got confusing playing as 2 people.

You must be so fucking lazy from saying "I don't"...

There’s a first time for everything. Thanks for watching and dropping a comment.

I now feel like I was playing it wrong and taught it to my kids the wrong way. Lol at 39, I’m even learning new ways to play uno. Do you have a video on rules for uno?

@@missadkins5882 There are loads of variations so it may be you were just playing a different set of rules correctly and I’ve confused matters. 😂 I don’t have a video for uno but we do enjoy that game. Maybe I can do one for that in future.

Maybe you're playing wrong.

thats how you play sungka in my country it might be different depending on where you're from

Seryna Figueroa there are two ways to play mancala traditional and avalanche. Your think of avalanche and Cogan is playing the traditional way

I hope the video helped.

No my friend, you’re thinking of the Beyoncé song.

I was just reading the text included with the game. It looks like 'nacala' is a word found in Arabic text though.

It is xd, funny to find an Arabic language scientist who put and takes off words while it's his mother tongue... the root word is Nacala (نقل) means moved or changed position, which has many versions like adj and verbs which changes the sound of the word little bit as in English which ends in mancala (منقلة), we call the protractor mancala also which we use it in mathematical problems like drawing a perfect circle.

Timothy Jones I apologise so deeply. Will you forgive me Timothy?

Mobilci Kardeş no he’s not

If you're in Turkey then you'd say it with a G perhaps, I'm not though so I don't and that's not what it said on the box. Thanks for the input.

Word!

Haha, no worries Aniyah.

Why you watching a video how to play a game you already know the rules to then? Maybe you could make your own 'definitive rules' video. Thanks for watching. :)

PS - Best get in touch with the games companies as they are the people who supplied the rules. Much love.

Just Play there’s multiple ways to play btw

Yeah I know, as I said in the video. You took the time to say this isn't how you play though.

He SAID there are many variations!!