Mancala

Mancala is one of the oldest board games in the world, played with nothing more than stones and a row of pits. This version uses the common Kalah rules: six pits a side with four stones in each, and a store at the right-hand end of your row.

On your turn, pick one of your pits. Its stones are sown one at a time into the pits that follow, anticlockwise, including your own store but skipping the computer's. Two rules make the game. If the last stone lands in your store, you move again. If it lands in an empty pit on your side and there are stones directly opposite, you capture those stones together with your own. The game ends as soon as either row is empty; any stones left in the other row go to that row's owner, and the fuller store wins.

Collect more stones in your store than the computer. Finish a move in your store for another turn, and land in an empty pit of your own to capture the stones opposite.