How Do You Play Mancala?
The word mancala means “to move” in Arabic. The game of mancala consists of moving your stones around the game board and capturing your opponent’s stones. The player that ends up with the most stones at the end of the game wins the game. Follow these instructions to play the game of mancala. Set up the mancala game board. Have the 2 players sit across from each other and place the mancala board lengthwise between them. Place 4 stones in each of the 12 smaller cups on the mancala game board. Understand which part of the mancala game board belongs to each player. The 6 smaller cups directly in front of each player are their 6 playing cups. The larger cup, or mancala, located to each player’s right belongs to that player. Take turns moving the mancala stones around the game board. To do this, a player will pick up the stones in any of their 6 smaller cups. They will then move those stones forward in a counterclockwise motion (to their right) dropping 1 stone in each cup that they pass alo
