
Mancala is a board game familly, originated in East
Africa.  The word "Mancala" came from arabic word
"naqalah" that means literaly "To move".

GP2XMancala is the "Awari" variant, and even if 
the rule of this game is simple, the complexity 
can be compared to chess Game.

This package is distributed under GPL Copyright.

Main Controls
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 B           Valid 
 Joystick    Move on the board
 Start       Mancala menu


How to play ? 
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AWARI Rules from awari.cs.vu.nl
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Awari is played on a board where each player owns 6
pits.  In the initial position, all pits are filled
with four stones, thus the initial position has 48
stones. 

The player to move chooses one of its own, nonempty
pits and removes all stones from the pit. The player
then sows the stones, counterclockwise, over the
remaining pits, skipping the original pit if there 
are more than 11 stones to sow.
  
If the last stone is sown into an enemy pit that
contains 2 or 3 stones after sowing, the stones are
captured. 

In this case, if the second last pit is also an enemy
pit that contains 2 or 3 stones, they are captured as
well, and this process is repeated clockwise, until
the own pit, or an enemy pit containing less than 2 or
more than 3 stones is reached.

The player who captures most stones, wins the game.

The game end when a player cannot move, however, to 
avoid such a situation early in the game, it is not 
allowed to do a move that leaves the opponent without 
countermove, unless all moves eradicate the opponent. 

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Mancala rules from www.compendia.co.uk
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Mancala is played on a board where each player owns 6
pits.  In the initial position, all pits are filled
with four stones, thus the initial position has 48
stones. 

Take it in turns to sow the stones around the board,
including your own store but skipping your opponent's.
If the last seed that you sow goes into the store you
get another turn.

The store is placed on the right of each player, but
it is not visible in GP2XMancala. The content of the
store is displayed in the score status line.

If the last seed you sow ends in an empty pot on your
side of the board you capture that seed and all the
stones in your opponents pot opposite. Put all these
stones in your store.

The game ends when one player clears all the pots on
their side of the board.  All the stones left on the
other side of the board are now theirs to count, so
don't let the other player clear their side of the
board !

The player with the most stones in his store wins.


  Enjoy,

       Zx
