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Mancala

Classic seed-sowing board game vs AI. Collect more stones to win.

How to play

Each side has 6 pits and one store (large bin at the end). Pits start with 4 stones each.

On your turn, tap one of your pits. All stones are picked up and sown one-by-one counter-clockwise into the next pits and your own store, skipping the opponent's store.

If the last stone lands in your store, you get another turn. If it lands in your own empty pit, you capture those stones plus the opposite pit's stones into your store.

Game ends when one side is empty. Remaining stones go to that owner's store. Most stones wins.

The AI looks further ahead with every win in your streak, so the run keeps getting harder.

Goal: win as many matches in a row as you can.

Tips & strategy

The rule that decides games is the extra turn: if your last stone lands in your own store, you go again. Chaining several extra turns in a row lets you score repeatedly before the opponent touches the board, so before each move count the stones in a pit and check whether it lands exactly in your store. The pit closest to your store is the prime launcher for these.

The other swing is the capture: ending in one of your own empty pits steals both that stone and everything in the pit directly opposite. Set those up by emptying a pit early so you can later drop a single stone back into it from the right distance. Always glance at what your move hands the opponent, too โ€” leaving a fat pit that lets them chain extra turns can undo all your work. As your streak grows the AI reads deeper, so plan two moves ahead, not just the immediate gain.