Oware Mancala

Each player has six pits with four seeds. Player 1 starts. Sow counterclockwise through pits only; skip the starting pit on every full lap. Captured-seed bowls are never sown into. If your last seed leaves two or three on the opponent’s side, capture that pit and consecutive preceding opponent pits with two or three. A capture taking every opponent seed is cancelled entirely; the sow still stands. When the opponent has no seeds, only a feeding move is allowed if one exists. When feeding is impossible, the game ends and remaining seeds are kept by their row owner. A player reaching 25 captured seeds wins; 24–24 is a draw. For a reproducible local ending, a third identical position automatically applies the usual agreed-end collection by row. That house adjudication is unranked. The ordinary capture and feeding rules remain Abapa. Bots use deterministic bounded search. They are practice opponents, not a human skill rating. Games stop after 2,000 moves or four active hours; incomplete and local results are unranked.

Oware Abapa · void grand slam. Optional clean solo wins compare matching bot settings and this exact rule edition. Device saving starts off. No remote opponent, account or public leaderboard. Games stay in this tab. No server leaderboard, account or remote multiplayer is included.

Use Tab or arrow keys to reach a legal pit; Enter or Space selects it. Bao adds two direction buttons. Pause hides the board and stops the active clock.

No. Quick play starts a complete built-in round with sensible defaults. Open Customise this game only when you want to change the available settings.

Play stays in this browser, with no account or remote leaderboard. Personal bests are saved only if you enable that option. Reset clears the round; use Erase device scores to remove those optional records from this browser. Private prompts and answers are excluded from the shared summary actions.