Each player has his/her own row of ‘bins’ and one ‘Mancala’ at the end of the board. Player 1's bins go across the top, and his/her Mancala is on the left. What is remaining belongs to player two.
The object is simple: To get as many stones in your Mancala as possible. To do this, each player takes turn removing all the stones out of one of his/her bins. This player then ‘sows’ the beads clockwise around the board, placing one stone in each bin, and one in his/her bin, but NOT his/her opponents bin.
If the last bead that a player sows is in his/her Mancala, that player immediately gets another turn.
The players continue in this fashion. The game is over when one player has no beads left in any of his bins. There are some rules that go along with the end of the game that are useful to know. See “Additional Rules” for more information.
