Mancala variants

Kalah is the modern American game with stores and extra turns. Oware, Awalé, Ayo and Warri are the West African and Caribbean games with captures of two and three. Congklak, sungka and dakon are the Southeast Asian games with continuing sowing. Toguz Korgool, the Kazakh and Kyrgyz game, uses nine pits of nine seeds and a special captured pit Kyrgyz sources call it a tuz; Kazakh sources call it a tuzdik. The rule builder has its sowing and capture switches: the first seed goes back into the starting pit, and a pit made even is captured. The tuz is not included. Pallanguzhi from Tamil Nadu uses seven pits and captures from a pit that follows an empty one.

Bao la Kiswahili from Zanzibar and the Swahili coast is played on four rows of eight pits with a capture rule that lets a single move run for minutes. It is often named the deepest game in the family. Omweso in Uganda and Isolo in Tanzania are related.

In Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Germany the game is sold as Kalaha, and that is the everyday name for what this site calls Kalah. The rules are the standard ones.

Kalah, Oware and Congklak have their own pages. Many of the two-row variants can be set up in the rule builder: change the pits, the seeds, the capture and the end rule.