On 9qum you can play mancala online for free in your browser, with no download. Our version is mangala, the mancala game known in Turkey: two rows of six pits, a store for each player and 48 stones. It works on a phone and on a computer, and you only need a free sign-up that takes a minute.
Play against the computer, play rated games against real people, invite a friend by link, or play two players on one phone.
The computer has four levels: Novice, Amateur, Strong and Master. Novice is gentle enough for children, while Master plans extra turns and captures and will punish a careless move. Move up a level when you start winning regularly.
In Play with a coach mode, a coach character plays against you and rates every move as best, excellent, good, inaccuracy, mistake or blunder. The coach gives hints, offers a take-back after a bad move and explains its comments aloud, so you see why a move works.
Games with people are rated with Glicko-2, and mangala has its own tournaments. Every game is saved in your history, so you can replay it move by move.
Each player has six pits with four stones in each and a store on the right, just after their sixth pit. On your turn you pick up the stones from one of your pits, put the first one back into the same pit and sow the rest one by one into the following pits, dropping one into your own store and skipping the opponent's; a single stone simply moves to the next pit. If your last stone lands in your own store, you move again. If it lands in an empty pit on your side and the pit opposite has stones, you capture them together with your stone. If it makes an even number in an opponent's pit, you take those stones. The game ends when one player's pits are all empty: that player takes the stones left on the opponent's side. More than 24 of the 48 stones wins; 24:24 is a draw.
These are the rules used on 9qum; traditional and school variants of mangala can differ in details.
Mancala is a family of sowing games. Mangala and Kalah use six pits and stores; oware also has six pits but captures twos and threes; togyz kumalak has nine holes and 162 stones. All of them are on 9qum, and the board works on any phone or computer.
To learn mangala from scratch, open the Learn section: a 14-step course on a live board covers the rules, the first tactics and how to win. To train your calculation there are Puzzles: 37 positions where you look for the best move and the board checks your answer at once.
Game analysis lets you play moves for both sides, set up your own position and ask the AI for advice. Games against the computer are saved in your history.
Yes, mangala on 9qum is free in every mode.
Yes, a free sign-up that takes a minute. Your account keeps your rating and game history.
Create a game and send the invite link, or play two players on one phone if you are together.
There are four levels, from Novice to Master. Master is a real challenge for experienced players.
Mancala is the name of the whole family of sowing games, and mangala is one of them, with six pits and a store on each side.
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