List of mancala games

Games in the mancala family include:

Popular games

The most widely played games are probably:

Bao is a complex strategy game of Kenya and Zanzibar, also played on an 8×4 board.
Kalah is the ruleset usually included with commercially available boards; however, the game is heavily biased towards the first player, and it is often considered a children's game. The board is 2×6 with stores.
Oware, the national game of Ghana, is also known by Warri, Ayo, Awele, Awari, Ouril, and other names. It has relatively simple rules but considerable strategic depth. The board is 2×6 with stores.
Omweso (also known as coro) is a strategic game of Uganda, played on an 8×4 board.
Pallanguzhi is played in Southern India with 2 x 7 stores. Two varieties of this game are popular, Kaashi and Bank.

Das Bohnenspiel is a German mancala based on a Persian game not unlike some African mancala variants. The board is 2×6 with stores.
Eson xorgol, a game played by the Kazakh minority in western Mongolia, is traditionally played with goat feces. The board is 2×5.
://Hus is a Namibian game. The board is 4×8.

Conga (Martin Franke; Germany)
Cups (Arthur Amberstone and Wald Amberstone; United States: New York)
The Glass Bead Game (Christian Freeling) is a complex mancala-style game with different colored stones.
Oh-Wah-Ree is a commercial variant of oware with provision for more than two players.
55Stones is a modern mancala game with simultaneous moves.

ALaguLi maNe (India— Karnataka)
Abangah (the Azande of Sudan) The board is 2×8 with stores.
Agsinnoninka (Philippines)
Aw-li on-nam ot-tjin (Borneo)
Ba-awa (Ghana) The board is 2×6 with stores.
Bajangkaq (Sumatra)
Bantumi
Baqura (Mesopotamia)
Bau (the Wa Chaga)
Beatta (Tayma)
Bong (Sudan)— See Toee, below.
Chanka (India, Sri Lanka)
Cherrapunji (game) (the Khasis) The board is 2×7 with stores.
Chonka (Borneo)
Choro
Chuba (United States) The board is 4×11 with stores.
Chuncajon (Philippines)
Congkak (Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines) The board is 2×7 with stores.
Contu-Holo (the Maroon of Suriname)
Dakon (Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines) The board is 2×7.
Dara-dara (Indonesia— Sulawesi)
Daramutu (Sri Lanka)
Dokuz Kumalak (Kazakistan) The board is 2×9 with stores.
Ellaewala-kanda (Sri Lanka)
Gebet'a (Ethiopia)
Galatjang (Sulawesi)
Gambatta (Abyssinia)
Halusa (Mesopotamia)
Ingilith (the Turkana of Kenya)
Isafu
Isafuba

Kale (Gabon, Turkey)
Kaloleh (Sumatra)
Kapo (Senegal)
Kanj guti (India— Orissa)
Khutka boia (India— Punjab)
Kotu-baendum (Sri Lanka)
Kubuguza
La'b Madjnuni
La'b Hakimi
La'b Akila
La'b Roseya
Li'b al-ghashim
Longbeu-a-cha (India— Assam)
Madji (the Benni of Nigeria)
Mak Khom (Thailand)
Mancala (game) (Egypt, Syria; mankala in Turkey)
Mandoli (Greece— Hydra)
Mangala (Nubia, Turkey)
Matoe (Indonesia— Sumba)
Mawkar katiya (India— Assam)
Mbau (Kenya— Kilimanjaro region of the Rift Valley)
Mechiwa (Bali)
Mefuvha
Melegayası (Turkey) The board is 2×9 with stores.
Mereköçtü (Azerbaycan) The board is 2×9 with stores.
Meuchoh (Sumatra- Aceh)
Meulieh (Sumatra- Aceh)
Meusueb (Sumatra- Aceh)
Meuta' (Sumatra- Aceh)
Minkale (Bin Kale) (Turkey)
Naranj
Nsolo (Zambia)
Ô ăn quan (Viet Nam) game is 2 mandarin boxes x5 ponds each, with 25 stones or tamarind seeds each
Ouril (Cape Verde)
Pachgarhwa (India)
Pallanguzhi (Tamil of India), also known as Pallankuli.
Pereauni
Poo (Liberia)
Puhulmuti (Sri Lanka)
Sai (Flores)
Sat-gol (India)
Songo
Sungka (Philippines)
Til guti
Toee, also known as Bongo in Sudan.
Toguz korgool (Kyrgyzstan) The board is 2×9 with stores.
Vai Lung Thlan (the Lushei Kuki of Assam)
Vamana guntalu (India— Andhra Pradesh)
Walak-pussa (Sri Lanka)
Warra (United States)
Wawee (Leeward Islands)

9. H. J. Braunholtz, The Game of Mweso in Uganda., Man. Vol. 31. (July 1931), pp. 121-122.