If your last stone falls into your Mancala, take another turn. If the last stone you drop is in an empty cup on your side, capture that piece along with any pieces in the hole directly opposite.

Captured pieces go into your Mancala store. When one player's six cups are completely empty, the game ends. The player who still has stones left in their cups captures those stones and puts them in their Mancala.

The player with the most stones wins. Yes, just find the appropriate substitute. For example, go outside and find small pebbles or stones.

Yes No. Not Helpful 1 Helpful It isn't a good idea to start off with only three pebbles in only one of the cups, as that provides a little bit of disadvantage to either player.

Some alternatives if you lost a piece is to find a small substitute or instead make all of the cups have three, taking away one pebble from all of the holes that have four in them.

Not Helpful 0 Helpful 4. All of them go to the player who did not make the last move. Not Helpful 8 Helpful Do I take another turn when my last pebble is on my side and I put myself and my opponents in the mancala?

You take another turn when the last pebble of your hole you pick up ends in your mancala. Not Helpful 0 Helpful 2. When I pick up the stones, do I leave one in the cup that I just took the stones from?

No, you take all stones. The objective is to have empty cups and move all the stones to the mancala. You can't have empty cups if you leave a stone in the cup.

Not Helpful 3 Helpful 1. If my last stone lands in an empty pot but there's nothing in the opposite pot, do I still get to put the stone in the mandala?

There are many other ways you can start a game, but the free turn makes this the most common opening.

Use your free turn to move stones in your far right cup. You will have 5 stones in this cup next to your Mancala after your opening move. Play the second cup from the left if you go second.

Note that the second cup on the left side of the board has exactly 5 stones. Move towards your Mancala, landing your final stone in it to get a free turn.

Defending against the ideal opening move is tough. Look for the opportunity to get a free turn, since you need it to distribute some stones across your side of the board.

After getting your free turn, move the stones from the first cup on your left. You will have 5 stones in this cup. Spreading the stones out opens up your possibilities a little.

Watch for your opponent to gather stones to your left. Many opponents do this to reduce your options and prevent you from capturing stones.

No matter who went first, the game opens up after the opening move. Ask yourself what they are most likely to do next turn and the turn after that.

Adjust your strategy to put yourself in a stronger position for the middle part of the game. Practice a lot to learn how to stay ahead.

Not all opponents go for the optimal moves. Monitor the situation and adapt your strategy to take advantage of mistakes.

Method 2 of Move your stones to keep more than 3 of them in each cup. Having a small number of stones in a cup makes it vulnerable. This also means your opponent is able to plan out their turn to avoid capture.

With more stones in a cup, you have a much wider range of movement. The exception to this is the rightmost cup next to the Mancala.

Keeping this cup empty is often a good idea, since you can easily move single stones forward to get free turns.

Force your opponent to have less than 3 stones per cup. When your opponent starts collecting stones in a cup, keep the opposite cup on your side of the board clear.

Plan out your movements so the final stone you play in a turn ends up in the empty cup. If you get a chance to make this move, you score a bunch of points through capturing.

If not, your opponent will move the stones, spreading them out and reducing their movement options on subsequent turns. These movements are far easier to anticipate.

Use this to your advantage to prevent your opponent from capturing your stones. Collect a large number of seeds in a single cup, if possible.

The best spot to do this is the rightmost cup, the one next to your Mancala on your side of the board. Getting a lot of stones there is tricky and requires careful movement every turn.

Accumulating 12 or more stones enables you to move all the way around the board. You also limit their options because you have most of the stones on your side of the board.

Be vigilant against capture. The rightmost cup is hardest for your opponent to reach. When done correctly, you force your opponent to make moves that harm their position.

Giving your opponent more stones enables them to move further, but this also helps bring stones back around to your side. Select your movements carefully for the best chance of success.

Captures are the quickest way to accumulate points. Most captures net you small amounts of points, but sometimes your opponent slips up and leaves lots of stones vulnerable.

Keep the pressure on to force your opponent into making more mistakes. Focus on controlling the board first and the captures will follow.

Method 3 of The player collects the highlighted seeds from both his house and the opposite house of his opponent and will move them to the store.

The game provides a Kalah board and a number of seeds or counters. The board has 6 small pits, called houses, on each side; and a big pit, called an end zone, at each end.

The object of the game is to capture more seeds than one's opponent. Mark Rawlings has written a computer program to extensively analyze both the "standard" version of Kalah and the "empty capture" version, which is the primary variant.

The analysis was made possible by the creation of the largest endgame databases ever made for Kalah. They include the perfect play result of all 38,,, positions with 34 or fewer seeds.

In , for the first time ever, each of the initial moves for the standard version of Kalah 6,4 and Kalah 6,5 have been quantified: Kalah 6,4 is a proven win by 8 for the first player and Kalah 6,5 is a proven win by 10 for the first player.

In addition, Kalah 6,6 with the standard rules has been proven to be at least a win by 4. Further analysis of Kalah 6,6 with the standard rules is ongoing.

For the "empty capture" version, Geoffrey Irving and Jeroen Donkers proved that Kalah 6,4 is a win by 10 for the first player with perfect play, and Kalah 6,5 is a win by 12 for the first player with perfect play.

Anders Carstensen proved that Kalah 6,6 was a win for the first player. Mark Rawlings has extended these "empty capture" results by fully quantifying the initial moves for Kalah 6,4 , Kalah 6,5 , and Kalah 6,6.

With searches totaling days and over 55 trillion nodes, he has proven that Kalah 6,6 is a win by 2 for the first player with perfect play.

This was a surprising result, given that the "4-seed" and "5-seed" variations are wins by 10 and 12, respectively. Kalah 6,6 is extremely deep and complex when compared to the 4-seed and 5-seed variations, which can now be solved in a fraction of a second and less than a minute, respectively.

The endgame databases created by Mark Rawlings were loaded into RAM during program initialization takes 17 minutes to load.

So the program could run on a computer with 32GB of RAM, the seed and seed databases were not loaded. For the following sections, bins are numbered as shown, with play in a counter-clockwise direction.

South moves from bins 1 through 6 and North moves from bins 8 through