So, you take a bowl on your front or back row that, after sowing the containing stones, ends with the last stone falling in a bowl having stones in the opposing bowl. In this stage, you must always capture when you can. ![]() This stage starts when all your stones of your stock are brought into play. If the nyumba is the only bowl left and are having a takasa, then you can place a stone in your nyumba then take out two stones and sow them to the left or to the right. He don't need to capture the stones in the nyumba and sow them. When the last seeded stone falles in the nyumba and the opposing bowl is empty, the player may end his turn if he wishes. Sowing the seeds from your nyumba is very tricky to do and it's one of the key moments of the game. The nyumba ceases to be a nyumba as soon as the stones it contains are sown and then it becomes just an ordinary bowl. The bowl marked with a rectangle is always the 5th one from the left on your front row and special rules occur to this bowl. In that case, you just put a stone in one of your last bowls with one or more stones, take all stones and start sowing them until the last seed comes in an empty bowl.ĭuring a takasa, no captures are allowed because you didn't start with a capture. TakasaĪ takasa is a move when you can't start by capturing stones. You must always keep on sowing or capturing until your last seed falls in an empty bowl. When the opposing bowl is empty, you can take the stones from the last bowl and start to sow them again in the same direction. When the last sowned stone comes in a bowl already containing stones, you can capture the stones in the opposing bowl. Capturing with Captured SeedsĬaptured stones immediately change sides and can capture even more opposing stones. But there is an exception: when you capture stones on a kichwa, you must put them back them on the same side where you captured them. A player can't skip bowls when sowing the captured stones. When a bowl with more than one stone is captured, then all those stones must be sow on the front row and one stone in each bowl, beginning in the left or right kichwa. This is the extreme left or right bowl of the front row. The captured stones are brought back into play by putting them in "kichwa". ![]() ![]() Now, they can capture the stones in the opposing bowl. Therefor, players put a stone from their stock in bowl on their front row that already contains one or more seeds and whose opposing hole also contains one or more seeds. The Namua Stageĭuring the first stage, called the Namua stage, each turn each player brings one seed into play. The aim of the game is to be the first player to empty the front row of your opponent or deprive him of all legal moves.īoth players start with 32 stones and at the start ten stones are placed like this: I. There are two holes, called the nyumba, that are square. The top row contains the seeds of one player and the bottom two rows contain the seeds of the other. The bowls must be big enough so 12-15 stones can fit in them. It's played on a board with four rows of eight bowls. Bao means 'wood' in Swahili language and this mancala variant is very popular in Africa.
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