Opponent ladder
Numbered opponents with increasing strength, saved locally as you beat each one.
Traditional Ghanaian mancala game
Oware: sow seeds, time your captures, and empty the board in your favor.
Sow seeds around a real mancala board, capture your rival’s stores, and climb a ladder of tougher AI opponents.
- Play style
- AI difficulty ladder
- Best for
- Turn-based strategy sessions
- Where to play
- Mobile or desktop
How to play
Start with the visible goal, make your move, and build on the result.
01
Choose an opponent from the difficulty ladder, then pick one of your six pits to sow its seeds counterclockwise, one per pit.
02
Land your last seed in an opponent pit that then holds 2 or 3 seeds to capture it — captures chain backward through consecutive qualifying pits.
03
The game ends when a side can no longer be fed; remaining board seeds go to whichever side still has seeds. Capture the most seeds to win.
What to expect
Climb a ladder of opponents with real sowing tactics.
Oware is a full rule-based mancala engine — real sowing, wraparound, and chained captures — played against a heuristic AI that gets tougher as you climb the ladder.
Real sowing rules
Counterclockwise sowing with proper wraparound and backward-chaining captures.
Traditional roots
A real implementation of Ghana’s classic mancala tradition, not a generic board reskin.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Oware?
Oware is a traditional Ghanaian mancala game. You sow seeds counterclockwise around a circle of pits and try to capture your opponent’s seeds.
How do captures work in Oware?
Landing your last sown seed in an opponent pit that then holds 2 or 3 seeds captures it, and the capture chains backward through consecutive qualifying opponent pits.
How does an Oware game end?
The game ends when one side can no longer be fed seeds. Any seeds remaining on the board go to whichever side still has seeds, and the highest seed count wins.
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