Board Game Kalaha – Mancala (Kalaha - Mancala) is a strategy board game for 2 players, which originated from Babylon, Egypt, and Arabia and spread from there to both the West and East. It is the general name for many turn-based strategic board games for 2 players. It is played with small stones, beans or seeds and rows of holes or pits in the ground, a board, or another playing surface. Stones are placed in the holes and moved in a circular manner with the main goal to capture more balls than your opponent.

The "Mancala" category includes many popular games:

• Ali Guli Mane or Pallanguzhi: Played in South India.
• Omanu guntalu in Telugu: Played in rural regions of Telangana, India.
• Bao in Swahili: Played throughout most of East Africa, in Kenya, Tanzania, Comoros, Malawi, and some areas of Congo and Burundi.
• Congkak: In South Asia from the Maldives to the Philippines, also known as Dakon, Ohvalhu, Sungka etc.
• Kalah: In North America, it is the most popular variation in the Western world.
• Oware (awalé, awélé): In Ashanti, worldwide, throughout West Africa, and in the Caribbean.
• Toguz korgool or Toguz kumalak: Played in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.

There are more than 800 names for traditional mancala games and 200 names for new games. From the study of the rules of mancala, information has emerged about its distribution, which is linked to migration routes over hundreds of years. The game was played in Egypt for more than 1,000 years before Christ and spread to other parts of Africa, apparently by traders traveling along the Nile.

The word mancala (منقلة) comes from the Arabic word naqala (نقلة), which literally means "movement." It is not the name of a game, but of the entire category of games it includes. The name is used in Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt, but it does not always refer to the same game and sometimes is used for backgammon. It is a game that first appeared in Africa and later in the ancient Near East.

General rules: Most mancala games are played the same way. Players start by placing a certain number of stones, as specified for each game, in every hole of the base. Each player can count the stones to plan their game. A turn in the game involves removing all stones from a pit, "sowing" the stones (placing one stone per hole in sequence), and capturing.

In the Baltic Sea region, it was played as bohnenspiel and in Bosnia it is still played as ban-ban. In Serbia and Greece, mancala boards ("Mantoli" in the Cyclades) have been found. Two Mancala boards from the early 18th century are located at Weikersheim Castle in southern Germany.

In the United States, it is very popular among much of the population. A mancala game called "warra" was still played in Louisiana in the early 20th century, and a commercial version called "kalah" became popular in the 1940s.

With instructions in Greek and English.

PLAYERS: 2
AGES: From 6 to 108 years old.
With 72 colored stones on a wooden folding base - case.
Size: 7.8 x 16.3 and height 4.4 cm.