Pocket Sowa
AI
Medium
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You
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Store
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Store
Pocket Sowa
Mancala for one or two
Opponent
AI
2 Players
Seeds per pit
3
4
5
6
Difficulty
Easy
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Hard
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How to play
Goal:
end with more seeds in your store than your opponent.
Your side
is the six pits with the red rim. Your
store
is the big red pit: on the right in landscape, at the bottom in portrait.
Sowing:
pick one of your pits. Its seeds drop one by one into the following pits, including your store, but never your opponent's store.
Free turn:
last seed lands in your store, you go again.
Capture:
last seed lands in an empty pit on your side and the pit opposite has seeds: both go to your store.
Game end:
as soon as either side is empty, everyone banks the seeds left on their own side. Most seeds wins.
Controls
Preview:
hover (mouse) or first tap (touch) shows the path. Badge on the landing pit:
↻
free turn,
+N
capture.
Touch:
tap to preview, tap again to sow. Switch to one-tap in Settings.
Keys:
1
–
6
play your pits in sowing order. Arrows +
Enter
work too.
Impatient?
Tap the board or press
Space
to fast-forward a move.
Hard
thinks up to a second ahead per move. It is brutal. You've been warned.
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no cookies, no tracking, no network. Only your settings and win record are kept, in this browser.
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