Mancala games

This two-player board game app offers a collection of Mancala games, including Kalah, Oware, and Congkak. Players use seeds or counters on a board with six houses per side and two end zones (stores). The goal is to amass more seeds than your opponent.

The app features several Mancala game variations:

Kalah:

1. Start with four (or five to six) seeds in each house.
2. Each player controls their six houses. Score is tracked in the store to the right.
3. Players take turns sowing seeds from one of their houses counter-clockwise, including their own store but excluding their opponent's.
4. If the last seed lands in an empty house and the opposite house has seeds, both are captured and added to the player's store.
5. Landing the last seed in your store earns an extra turn. There's no turn limit.
6. The game ends when a player has no seeds left in their houses. Remaining seeds are added to the opponent's store, and the player with the most seeds wins.

Oware:

1. Begin with four (or five or six) seeds per house. Each player controls six houses, and the score is the number of seeds in their store.
2. On a turn, a player sows all seeds from one of their houses counter-clockwise. Seeds are not placed in the stores or the starting house. If the starting house initially contained 12 or more seeds, it is skipped, and the 12th seed is placed in the next house.
3. Capture occurs when the last sown seed brings an opponent's house to exactly two or three seeds. This captures those seeds, and potentially more, continuing until a house with a different count or belonging to the player is reached. Captured seeds go to the player's store.
4. If an opponent's houses are empty, the player must make a move that gives the opponent seeds. If impossible, the player captures all seeds in their territory, ending the game.
5. The game ends when one player captures over half the seeds, or both players have half (a draw).

Version 1.4.1 (Aug 6, 2024): Bug fixes.

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