Wikimanqala

Wikimanqala is a site devoted to the famous mancala board game(turn-based strategy board games) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mancala) in its ancient and modern variants.

The site has been discontinued and its domain taken over by an advertiser for online casino gambling.

The site was saved by Archive.org 77 times between January 13, 2007 and December 15, 2018.

Extract from the main page of the site the 13 of January ,2017:

Welcome to wikimanQala, the free online resource on mancala gamesanyone can edit.

This version began on the 5th of August, 2006 and nowadays we are working on 208 articles.

The counters employed in mancala games are usually called seeds. These can be true seeds from plants, but also cowries, pebbles or dung balls, while in many modern games glass stones or plastic pieces are used.

The symbolic meaning depends on the societal background of the game.

In agricultural societies the counters usually stand for the seeds used to till a field.

A number of seeds which is captured, e.g. two or three in oware or two, four and six in the Bohnenspiel, is a ripe fruit that is harvested.

In societies which are based on fishing the seeds can mean fish. In pastoral societies the counters are considered to be cattle. In general, the symbolic meaning is often associated with fertility. [ + ]

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