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Mancala Club Videos

These videos give you everything you need to get started in our virtual Mancala Club! Learn new rule sets, make your own boards, try fun challenges and see what new things you can learn from the world's oldest board game!

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Getting Started

This collection of videos gives you everything you need to start your own Mancala Club.

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Structure of a Project Based Program
02:39
Cultivate Learning at the University of Washington

Structure of a Project Based Program

In this video John and David talk about the structures that make Mancala Club work.
Engagement in Project Based Learning
01:31

Engagement in Project Based Learning

In this video David and John talk about the educational philosophy/architecture of Mancala Club.
How to Play Round and Round Mancala
03:26
John Benner & David Phelps

How to Play Round and Round Mancala

Learn how to play Round and Round Mancala, a version popular in Seattle Washington and the West Coast.
Make your own Mancala Board
05:40
John Benner & David Phelps

Make your own Mancala Board

Learn how to make a Mancala board with materials you have at home.
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Mancala Rule Sets

There are over 400 ways to play Mancala! Here are some of our favorites! Click the button below to download a PDF of the most common rules we play by.  As you try new rules think about the following: What skills or strategies are unique to this rule set? What strategies or skills are common between this and other rule sets?
(MORE VIDEOS COMING SOON!)

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How to Play Round and Round Mancala
03:26
John Benner & David Phelps

How to Play Round and Round Mancala

Learn how to play Round and Round Mancala, a version popular in Seattle Washington and the West Coast.
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Mancala Club Challenges

Mancala Club features many challenges for you to choose from. Can you win the game with a tie? What's the highest score you can get on your first turn? Can you design your own mancala game? What about a Mancala Bot Battle?
Print out your Mancala Club Challenge Board and draw a stone for each challenge you complete! 
(MORE VIDEOS COMING SOON!)

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Play to Tie Challenge with Notation
05:18
John Benner & David Phelps

Play to Tie Challenge with Notation

Sometimes we tie by accident, but it is MUCH more difficult to do it on purpose. This is the Play to Tie Challenge, win the game with a tie! We changed one rule in Round and Round Mancala to make this challenge- instead of the winner having the most stones, both players win if they tie and lose if they don't. In this video, we also teach how to use Mancala notation to record your moves. If you record your moves, you can talk together and see how you might move differently next game, or if you win, prove you found a solution to this challenge. How many ways to win by tie are there?
Play to Tie SHORT
04:54
John Benner & David Phelps

Play to Tie SHORT

Sometimes we tie by accident, but it is MUCH more difficult to do it on purpose. This is the Play to Tie Challenge, win the game with a tie! We changed one rule in Round and Round Mancala to make this challenge- instead of the winner having the most stones, both players win if they tie and lose if they don't. This is the shorter version that DOES NOT include how to use Mancala notation to help you beat this challenge.
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Fun Mancala Videos from the Internet

Here are some cool videos about Mancala we found. Watch a video of a Oware Tournament put on by the Oware Society, learn how to play Khala (Capture Rule set) en Español, see how Oware connects the African Diaspora, and how it's played in Ghana.

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¿CÓMO JUGAR MANCALA (KALAH)? *INTRODUCCIÓN* JUEGO DE TABLERO - Nayeli
07:10
Tiempo de pensar

¿CÓMO JUGAR MANCALA (KALAH)? *INTRODUCCIÓN* JUEGO DE TABLERO - Nayeli

¡Hola! En este video te hablo sobre un juego llamado Mancala, explico cómo jugarlo en su variante KALAH🤩, si te agradó, no olvides darle like y compartirlo. Además te recuerdo comentar aquí abajito en qué otra versión te gustaría conocer sus reglas. Compárteme si tienes el tablero adecuado o te gustaría hacer uno como yo 😃 ¡Saludos! ▶ DISCORD: https://discord.gg/spCcTRMtFt ▶ TWITCH: https://www.twitch.tv/tiempod3pensar ▶ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/TiempoDePensarYT ▶ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/tiempod3pensar ▶ TWITTER: https://www.twitter.com/tiempod3pensar ▶ CONTACTO: nabeqb@gmail.com 📌 Contenido 0:00 Variantes del Mancala 1:00 Tablero 1:47 Dos jugadores 2:00 Objetivo 2:30 ¿Quién comienza? 3:20 Repetición de turno 4:08 Casas vacías 5:13 ¿Cómo termina? 6:04 Estrategias 6:17 Fichas de 2 colores 6:38 Despedida #boardgames #howtoplay #howtoplay #mancala #kalahari
23rd International Awale Tournament
03:44
The Oware Society

23rd International Awale Tournament

Round 5 of the 23rd International Awale Tournament hosted at the 34th International Festivals des Jeux - Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France on 22nd February 2020. Featuring in the foreground a match between Grandmaster Trevor Simon of Antigua & Barbuda vs Adu Adjei of Ghana.
Oware: the Ghanaian Traditional Sport | Trans World Sport
06:48
Trans World Sport

Oware: the Ghanaian Traditional Sport | Trans World Sport

Oware is a lively traditional Ghanaian sport. Also known as African Chess, the game has been played in West Africa for hundreds of years and according to local myth inspired a marriage. Subscribe to Trans World Sport: http://goo.gl/5kBsQ TWS features sports action from around the globe, including reports from the biggest international competitions, in-depth features on lesser-known sports and profiles of rising stars of the future. Follow us: http://twitter.com/TransWorldSport Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/transworldsport87
Ayo/Oware/Warri - A Spiritual Connection
06:56
SaharaTV

Ayo/Oware/Warri - A Spiritual Connection

Arguably the world's oldest board game, ayo - as it is called in Nigeria - or oware - as it is called in Ghana made its way through the Atlantic passages during the slave trade and has survived many generations resurfacing in Caribbean Islands like Antigua and Jamaica. Jawara, a devoted teacher and maker of the game who hails from Antigua, speaks to SaharaTV about how this game spiritually connects Africans home and abroad.
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