What's the name of this board game?

Question

In school, we used to play this game. I'm not sure whether it'd be classed as a board game, but it's played on a thick, long rectangular board, with two large chunks out of the end.

With about 6 or 8 little chunks along each side.

And you take the stones and place a certain amount in each.

After all stones have made it into the two large holes, whoever has the most stones, wins.

What is it called?

Answer 1

Mancala  is a family of board games played around the world, sometimes called sowing games or count and capture games, which comes from the general gameplay. Mancala games play a role in many African and some Asian societies comparable to that of chess in the West. The mancala games best known in the Western world are Kalah, Oware (or Awele), Congklak, Omweso, and Bao.

Answer 2

I looked it up on wikipedia after all these ppl answered. I never heard of it. I could see a person taking an egg carton and cutting and taping something on the ends and play this with stuff you have at home...

Answer 3

omg i loved that game, sorry i dont remember the name.

Answer 4

i think its mancala

Answer 5

Mancala. I find quit fun. I play it online all the time on club penguin.

Answer 6

In the Philippines, this is called SUNGKA.

Quite popular here, really.

Answer 7

Mancala

Answer 8

monocala\

Answer 9

we malaysians call it Congkak.. in older Nokia phones they hav a game similar to that and they call it Bambino i think..

Answer 10

mancala?

Answer 11

Sung-ka

Answer 12

I think you are talking about Mancala.  Is this what it looked like? http://www.achildsdream.com/images/manca...

Answer 13

mancala...

Answer 14

Sounds like MANCALA, the old African game.

Answer 15

It has different names around the world but the origin is most likely African.

In parts of S-E Asia it's called Chuka Rumah and arrived there from India.