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Mancala: Marbles & Seeds – Board Game Review
Mancala: Marbles & Seeds is a Board/Strategy/Entertainment game from GAZEUS GAMES SERVICOS DE INTERNET S.A., first launched in 3rd April 2017.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 519+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Mancala: Marbles & Seeds Stand Out
Also known as Kalah, Awele, Oware, and Bao, Mancala is an ancient African board game, where 2 players play against each other in turn-based fashion, to see who collects more marbles or seeds.
Mancala has different variations. This is a summary of the rules of Mancala: Marbles & Seeds:
Each player, on his or her turn, chooses one of the 6 holes on his or her side and deals the stones throughout the board in an anticlockwise direction, leaving one stone in each hole and in the player's Mancala. If the last stone dealt ends up in the player's own Mancala, then the player gets a free turn. If the last stone dealt falls in an empty hole on the player's side of the board, this player captures all the stones in the opponent's parallel hole.
The game ends when one of the players does not have any more stones in the holes on his or her side of the board. When this happens, the stones that remain shall go to the other player's Mancala. The winner is the player with most stones.
It's a simple and fun game, but also challenging: you have to use a lot of strategy to your advantage in this brain puzzler!
Features:
- 3 difficulty levels: easy, medium and difficult;
- Undo moves and unlimited hints;
- Statistics: track your progress;
- Game options: play the game on your terms;
- 100% free!
If you like Mancala and other classic board games like chess, backgammon and checkers, you will love Mancala: Marbles & Seeds. Download it now and indulge in this satisfying brain puzzler!
This Board game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Mancala: Marbles & Seeds is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 26th March 2018
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
In this update of Mancala: Marbles & Seeds.
- Improvements in app performance.
- Small bug-fixes.
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Download & Availability
Mancala: Marbles & Seeds is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Mancala: Marbles & Seeds on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Despite some comments, we have experienced a win some – lose some game play so far; had to move up to the hard level. So if youre new start out at easy and work your way up. Ive enjoyed this app more than other Mancala apps that we previously tried.
Thank you. For allowing us to protect ourselves.
Hard mode was actually hard, its just we had a winning streak.
Our daughter introduced us to this game, and ive enjoyed it immensely.
MINIMAL ADs compared to a lot of free games on here – only one between each game. Cute theme options!! Simple – and the design provokes a nostalgia of a childhood spent playing games on a computer in the late 90s – early 2000s. . Anyw a y s ummmmm Thank you to whoever made this and keeps it up or whatever PLEASE CHANGE NOTHING you have simply MASTERED the design mobile Mancala in our opinion – thank you (But maybe an online multi player option?? Its be nice).
Its good we have a lot of fun playing it.
Cute game & nice graphics. Most AI players are not as difficult as this one so that is nice. Would love to see a choice of less or more stones. Just having the four loses motivation after a little bit, thanks! :).
The computer always wins!we have tied with it, but Ive never won. We wish that the computer would let us win because its frustrating when we always lose. We play this game all the time at school, but we put two Mancala boards together and make it megasized. Then its big Mancala and its really fun. We wish that the pieces were always shells. We wish they were different things every time you play. We also wish we could get like coins if we beat the robot and then we could trade them in. We would like to see more game progressions. Overall, its a pretty fun game.
Only a few short ads, a lot less than most. Great game with one player options.
Great game, more difficult than most. We hate the ads and the fact that the x in the corner only leads you to the App Store- very annoying.
This is a great game and we really enjoy it. We love how there are different levels. We have another mancala app and this one is better.
Would like the app to enable players to play actual people online as a choice instead of the computer all the time, other than that its a good game.
Why can you not have the option to play with a real person? Boys are fine, but we want to play with our friends.
Level hard is just as easy as level easy.
No online play. Hard level consists of 1or2 patterns to win every time.
We love Mancala and the app is great and all but it needs more options because there are so many different ways to play us our grandma and we all play differently and It would be good to be able to practice all the different ways we ONLY PLAY THIS GAME BECAUSE we LIKE MANCALA NOT BECAUSE THIS IS A GOOD APP.
violating App Store policies. We couldnt find another way to report this issue. So heres your one star review.
We cant get the game to load when we click on it. Ive tried to restart our phone but nothing works.
This game is the worst game ever.
Is there a virus in the game? It keeps repeating jogatina with the crown and thats it. We cant play the game or nothing.
We cant even get the game to open past the app developer page, so we cant even play. We thought the updates might fix this, but nope! Waste of our time.
Deleting this game immediately.
Give option to remove ads good grief.
DONT GET THIS GAME IT IS TERRIBLE.
We do not like this game because the computer will cheat!! It is unfair and it made us throw our phone across the room even out of anger!!! We wish to give this a zero stars but it will not let us, nothing but lies and deception we have enough of that in our life.
Our son & we love playing this. Ads aren't bad either.
The advertisement pop ups are absolutely positively annoying! Happens waaaaay to often! Seriously could do without so many! PLEASE FIX THAT OR we'M DELETING THIS GAME! Other than that, absolutely love it! :).
Nice little game. Robot is more challenging than most apps.
Fun game, would like to see avalanche mode added.
Hard setting is too easy and needs more theme options.
Can't be explained any other way. It's mancala.
We were playing another game on our phone when an ad popped up for this game. After the initial feeling of annoyance passed, and we realized what it was, we got super excited and immediately downloaded it. It even had us searching for our tangible Mancala game! Like everyone else says, the ads are not that bad, but we would like to see more game progression. Maybe some levels? Or the option to play against other people? We're hoping they add this because they have something really cool on their hands.
The app works great and never has any issues. We wish there was a harder level though as the hardest level is still pretty easy to beat.
Addicting! Learned to play Mancala in 5th grade.
We used to love this game when we were a kid!!! We were so excited to find it in an app.
We used to play this game all the time when we were younger. Only this is better because you don't loose the marbles.
Childhood game that we loved so muc.
Very good game just wish we could play someone. But it's great practice.
We love the real version and this is the best app that matches the real mancala.
Fun game. Ads a bit annoying. Fun distraction.
This is a very fun game. Super addicting.
Love this app! We use to play this as a kid.
We love playing this game. It's so much fun! Great app.
Great way to pass the time. We love the real life version of this game so this is just as great.
It occupies our time a lot! Very addicting! Brings back memories of being a kid playing with our nephews.
We have the board game and we love having this for our iPad.
Love this. We buy it for gifts all the time, love that we can now play it on our phone.
This is a nice game..you can choose level of difficulty..good sound..pretty displays of board and moving pieces.
Entertaining and helps your cognitive skills.
This is a great game but we wish the hard level could be a bit harder. It gets monotonous after a while.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2.0
- Size: 209.61 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, PT, ES
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: GAZEUS GAMES SERVICOS DE INTERNET S.A.
Last updated: 26th March 2018 | Genre: Board, Strategy | Developer: GAZEUS GAMES SERVICOS DE INTERNET S.A.