mancala

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If the last gem lands on your mancala, then you can pick another cup and move again.

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  1. A game played on a board containing two or more rows of cup-shaped holes in which pebbles are placed and transferred from hole to hole according to certain rules. The game has been carried by the Arabs over the greater part of Africa and eastward to the Malay Archipelago. It is known locally as naranj (Maldive Islands); chanka (Ceylon); chongkak (Malay Peninsula); poo (Liberia); chuncajon (Philippine Islands); gabattá (Abyssinia); abangah (Niam Niam); wawe (West Indies); chuba (as published and played in the United States).

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  1. Arabic manqala, a game played with 72 small shells on a board of 12 holes, literally ‘place of transferring or moving’ (compare the meaning of draughts, literally ‘moves’), from ma-, a prefix forming nouns of place and time, + naqala, transfer, remove.
 

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