The Mancala Room

A Quiet Game of Counting Houses

The Table

Your move
Choose a pit to begin.
Your store: 0
Opponent's store: 0

House Rules

Multiplayer

The Ledger

How to Play

The Board

Two rows of six pits, four seeds in each, plus a store at either end — yours on your right.

Sowing

On your turn, pick one of your own pits and sow its seeds one at a time into each pit that follows, moving counter-clockwise around the board — including your own store, but skipping over your opponent's store entirely.

Extra Turns

If your last seed lands in your own store, you go again.

Capturing

If your last seed lands in an empty pit on your own side, you capture it along with every seed in the pit directly opposite — all of it goes into your store.

Winning

When one side's pits are all empty, the game ends and each player keeps whatever remains on their own side. Whoever has more seeds in their store wins.

Game Over

The house has won the room.