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Mancala games
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mancala games

Le Mangola est un jeu Turc, qui se joue avec de petites coquilles. "Moeurs et usages des Turcs, leur religion, leur gouvernement civil, militaire et politique" (in French). Hyde, De Ludis Orientalibus, 1694, Oxford (England), p.

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The Journal of American Folklore, vol.92, No. "Some Notes on Aspects and Functions of Turkish Folk Games". Archived from the original on 10 August 2011. ^ Arslan Küçükyıldız, Türk Zekâ Oyunları-1 Köçürme-Mangala.Recueil de cent estampes representant differentes nations du Levant. The player who captured most pieces wins the game. The game ends when all the pits are empty. Players may capture on either side of the board. Also, if there is a continuous line of pits with either 2 or 4 pieces before the one where the capture has occurred, all the seeds in those pits are captured as well. If the last piece in a distribution is dropped in a pit that contains 1 or 3 pieces (2 or 4 with the one just dropped), all those pieces are captured by the player. At their turn, the player takes all the pieces from one of their pits and drops them one at a time into the following pits counterclockwise. At game setup, 4 pieces are placed in each pit. Mangala is played on a 2圆 (or 2x7) mancala board (i.e., 2 rows of 6 or 7 pits). There are many other mancala variants played in Anatolia: Pıç in Erzurum, Altıev in Safranbolu, Meneli Taş in Ilgın, etc. The classic mangala game is still known in Turkey, but mangala played in Gaziantep, in Southern Anatolia, is more similar to Syrian mancala La'b Madjnuni ( Crazy Game). The game was also referred as Mangola in some later western works. It was first described in 1694 by British orientalist Thomas Hyde. According to the Turkish ethnologue Metin And, the "mancala" of The Arabian Nights (fifteenth night) could be directly related to this game. The game can be traced in Ottoman miniatures starting from the 16th century. There is also another game referred as Mangala played by the Bedouin in Egypt, and Sudan, but it has quite different rules. It is strictly related to the mancala games Iraqi Halusa, Palestinian Al-manqala, and Baltic German Bohnenspiel. Mangala is a traditional Turkish mancala game. Two Turkish girls playing mangala, 1700s Mangala











Mancala games