About Mancala Fun

Mancala Fun is a free collection of traditional mancala games for the web and Android. It is made by one independent developer, Alexandros Georgiou, to make the whole family of mancala games easy to discover and play.

What is mancala?

Mancala is not a single game but a family of them, played for centuries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Caribbean. Players take turns lifting the seeds from a pit and sowing them one by one into the pits that follow. The goal is usually to capture more seeds than your opponent, but the details — the board size, the capture rules, the way a game ends — vary enormously from one region to the next.

What you can do here

• Read the full illustrated rules of 64 traditional variants, free and

without an account.

• Play any of them in your browser against the computer or a friend on the

same device.

• Install the Mancala Fun Android app for offline play, leaderboards and

local Bluetooth multiplayer.

Where the rules come from

Each page links to its source.

The maker

Alexandros Georgiou is an independent software developer who builds small, useful apps. Mancala Fun is a labour of love for traditional board games.