Mancala

This is a nice board game called "Mancala" that I ever played several years ago. If you have several little baskets and enough stones, or some similar tools, you can play it on a table with your friends, simple and fun!

The Rule:

The six small cups across the bottom are yours. The tall cup on the right is your mancala. (If you are seated in the top-right position, the top cups and the left mancala are yours.)

Either you or your friend can start the game by taking his/her turn. When you choose one of your cups, the stones from the cup are distributed counter-clockwise one by one (start from the cup right next to the cup you choose) around the board. Stones you play are dropped in your mancala but not in your opponent's mancala.

If the last stone from the cup you choose drops into your mancala, you get to play again. This can repeat as many times as you continue to play cups that end at your mancala.

If the last stone from the cup you choose drops into one of your empty cups, that stone plus all stones in the opponent's cup directly across the board go into your mancala. But in this case, your opponent will take the next turn since the last stone is not getting into your mancala.

When all of one player's cups are empty, any stones left in the opponent's cups are put into the opponent's mancala and the game ends. The player with the larger mancala wins.

You can set the number of stones in each cup to customize the game, which is usually in the range of 3-6.

Easy right? Have fun!