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Mancala
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.. tags:: large, boardgame, game, twoplayer



The board game Mancala is “seed-sowing” game in which two players select
pockets of seeds to spread across the other pockets on the board while trying
to collect as many in their store as possible. There are several variants of
this game across different cultures. The name comes from the Arab word naqala,
meaning “to move.”

To play, grab the seeds from a pit on your side of the board and place one in
each subsequent pit, going counterclockwise and skipping your opponent’s store.
If your last seed lands in an empty pit of yours, move the opposite pit’s seeds
into that pit. If the last placed seed is in your store, you get a free turn.

The game ends when all of one player’s pits are empty. The other player claims
the remaining seeds for their store, and the winner is the one with the most
seeds. More information about Mancala and its variants can be found at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mancala.



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   .. literalinclude:: mancala.py
      :language: python
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