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Kalah, also called Kalaha and often simply Mancala, is a game in the mancala family introduced to the West by William Julius Champion Jr in the 20th century. When someone refers to "the game Mancala", they are probably referring to this game, although there are deeper mancala games available: this game heavily favors the starting player. Confusingly, this variant is also sometimes referred to as Warri or Awari although those names more properly refer to the game Oware. Occasionally this game can be mis-named as "Kalahari", this is likely to have happened as a result of westerners returning from Africa and naming the game after the Kalahari desert.RulesEquipment|} The only pieces are 36 undifferentiated seeds. SetupAt the beginning of the game three seeds are placed in each pit except the end pits. Typically, the winner of the previous game starts the next game.ObjectThe object of the game is to capture more seeds than one's opponent. Since the game has only 36 seeds capturing 19 is sufficient to accomplish this. Since there are an even number of seeds it is possible for the game to end in a draw, where each player has captured 18.If one player finds that they no longer have any seeds in their playing pits, then the game also ends, and the player who still has seeds in her pits moves these seeds to their scoring pit. SowingExtra turnIf the last seed landed in the player's own scoring pit, they win an additional turn. As long as the last sown seed keeps landing in the player's scoring pit, they earn additional turns.CapturingIf the last sown seed lands in one of the current player's empty pits, directly across from an opponent's pit containing one or more seeds, both the last seed and the facing seeds are captured and placed into the current player's scoring pit.Variation
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