MANCALA - 2 person game of strategy

A 2-person board game. Very elegant, with some features of backgammon and chess, but simpler.

I also included here some posts and letters regarding further sources of information, but there's quite a bit of information floating about the net. (sample.) Here's a few key sites:

Pointer to a paper, "The Combinatorics of Mancala-Type Games: Ayo, Tchoukaitlon, and 1/pi".

Here are some posts regarding Tchukarama, describes as a "solitaire version of mancala".

Play Mancala on the web.


Other pages at my own web site you may find of interest:

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Last modified 1999/09/22 by Dave Rusin, rusin@math.niu.edu