New game, mangala (ongoing)

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1. colonel,

Hello guys, I have a new game suggestion.
Mangala is a Turkish-made strategy game. The game is played with 2 people and 48 small stones.
The stones are evenly distributed across 12 wells in 2 rows facing each other, that is, 4 stones are placed in each well.
There are 2 large wells on the right and left of the board, extending from the player's own wells to the opponent's wells, for both players to put the stones they have captured. These wells are called treasuries. Players' own treasures remain to their right.
At the end of the game, the player with the most stones in their treasury wins the game.
The player whose turn it is takes all the stones from one of their own wells and leaves 1 stone in that well and continues counterclockwise, that is, to the right, leaving the stones in his hand one by one. The player can put stones in his own treasure and continue to distribute the stones in his hand by going to the opposite zone, but without putting stones in the opponent's treasure, he continues to pass into his own territory and continue to distribute the stones. If the last stone in his hand lands in the player's own treasury, the player plays again. If the last stone in his hand comes across one of the opponent's wells and makes the pile of stones there double (such as 2, 4, 6, 8), he takes all the stones in that well and puts them in his own treasury. If the last stone in his hand comes across one of his own wells and that well is empty, he takes the stones from the well opposite that well and puts them in his own treasury together with the last stone he has put.
The player who has no stones left in the wells in his own region takes all the stones from all the wells in his opponent's region and puts them in his own treasury and the game ends. At the end of the game, the winner gets 1 point. If the number of stones in the treasures is even, the game ends in a draw and both players get half a point.

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2. codbro,

this sounds good actually

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3. colonel,

It would be nice to see this game in the playroom.

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4. sky360,

this game is played a lot in south part of a southern Indian state, Karnataka. here its called ali guli mane.

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Last edited by sky360, Jul 17 2024 10:04:18

5. Aminiel,

Hello,

This looks quite a lot like a game from Africa called Awalé.

That's definitely an interesting kind of game we haven't yet, but given that 2 player strategy games aren't very popular, the priority to implement it is quite low.

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