How To Play Mancala Directions?

Place 4 stones in each small pit on your side of the board

Leave the store on each end empty at the start

Choose one of your own pits on your turn

Pick up all stones from that pit

Sow the stones one by one into the next pits moving counterclockwise

Include your own store when sowing

Skip your opponent’s store

If the last stone lands in your store, take another turn

If the last stone lands in an empty pit on your side, capture that stone and the stones in the opposite pit

Put captured stones into your store

End your turn after sowing unless you earned another turn

The game ends when one player has no stones left in all their pits

Move all remaining stones on the other side into that player’s store

Count the stones in each store

The player with the most stones wins

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