Sun Jan 29, 2006 10:04 am
Mankalah for the PSP
Mankalah for the PSP
Believe it or not, people used to have portable gaming long before there were PSPs, or GameBoys, or even electricity. As astonishing as it may seem, fun could be had with a handful of rocks and some slots carved into a slab of wood. Scoff all you want, it’s true. So it’s only appropriate that an ancient game like Mancala has been brought to the current generation of gaming in Mankalah for the PSP, by thepixelatedpoo (don’t ask).
Mankalah (also called Warri) is one of the oldest known games originating from Africa. Each players has 7 pits, 6 of them containing stones. The larger bowl to the right is called the Kalah.
The object is to move more stones into your Kalah than your opponent. On each turn a player selects one of his pits to move stones from. All stones are removed from the pit and a single stone is placed in each pit in a counter clockwise direction, skipping your opponents Kalah. If the last stone lands in your Kalah, you get another turn. If the last stone lands on one of your pits that is empty, and there are stones in your opponents pit directly across from the last pit, both your stone and your opponents stones are moved to your Kalah.
Download: http://dl.qj.net/Mankalah-Gaming-Consol ... /catid/195
Believe it or not, people used to have portable gaming long before there were PSPs, or GameBoys, or even electricity. As astonishing as it may seem, fun could be had with a handful of rocks and some slots carved into a slab of wood. Scoff all you want, it’s true. So it’s only appropriate that an ancient game like Mancala has been brought to the current generation of gaming in Mankalah for the PSP, by thepixelatedpoo (don’t ask).
Mankalah (also called Warri) is one of the oldest known games originating from Africa. Each players has 7 pits, 6 of them containing stones. The larger bowl to the right is called the Kalah.
The object is to move more stones into your Kalah than your opponent. On each turn a player selects one of his pits to move stones from. All stones are removed from the pit and a single stone is placed in each pit in a counter clockwise direction, skipping your opponents Kalah. If the last stone lands in your Kalah, you get another turn. If the last stone lands on one of your pits that is empty, and there are stones in your opponents pit directly across from the last pit, both your stone and your opponents stones are moved to your Kalah.
Download: http://dl.qj.net/Mankalah-Gaming-Consol ... /catid/195