After the huge success of All Align it Games, Now We are launching Mancala Game, a two-player abstract strategy board game. Mancala (Congkak) is one of the oldest African traditional board game. Mancala is one of the oldest known ancient board games. There are many variants including Oware and Awale and we are launching this game with variant Kalah Game rules. We will try to add Oware and Awale rules also in upcoming app updates.

Game Ancient History

This game is known as congka or congklak in Indonesia, congkak in Malaysia and Brunei, and sungkâ in the Philippines. Historical records show that similar games also existed in Sri Lanka (where it is known as chonka) and India. In Tamilnadu, India, it is known as Pallanguzhi. A similar game is still found in the Maldives, where it is known as ohlvalhu (literally "eight holes"). It has also spread to the Marianas (where it is known as chongka)
Other names for the game include dakon or dhakon , kunggit (Philippines), dentuman lamban (Lampung) and naranj (Maldives) and pallankuzhi (pallanguli game)

Pallanghuzi (pallanguli), or Pallankuli (பல்லாங்குழி in Tamil, ಅಳಗುಳಿ ಮನೆ or Alaguli Mane in Kannada, "వామన గుంటలు" or Picchala Peeta in Telugu, പല്ലാങ്കുഴി in Malayalam), is a traditional ancient mancala game played in South India especially Kerala & Tamil Nadu. Later the games were spread to other places including Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh in India as well as, Sri Lanka and Malaysia. Variants are called as Ali guli mane (in Kannada), Vamana guntalu (in Telugu), and Kuzhipara (in Malayalam)


Our free Align it Mancala game offers

★ single-player Mancala game (play with CPU)