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What does mancala mean?

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Noun
  1. (game) Any of various board games, common throughout Africa and Asia, in which a move consists of emptying a pit and then its contents are sown one by one into ensuing pits. [from 17th c.]
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Mameh could sit on the floor to play board games like mancala with her friends, or roll out a mat and lounge about.
Mancala variants can be played with pen and paper by drawing the basins as large as possible and the stones as small dots.
The new CD-ROM, designed for ages 8 to 14, offers three time-tested favorites called Go-Moku, Mancala and Nine Men's Morris.
The caesalpina bonduc seeds and cowry shells, the most common in mancala games, are large enough to count and distribute the counters comfortably around the holes.
We love to roll dice and move pieces around a board, plot battleship strategies, play cribbage, chess, and mancala.

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