This dimension links a game to the wider sport family it belongs to. Wikipedia describes rugby football as "a type of football, a team sport which developed in the nineteenth century in the United Kingdom," placing it within the broader football family alongside association football and Australian rules. Browsing by sport groups games that share the same parent sport.
Facts
Comparison
Era of Origin Mancala sowing game
Filter Results1 entry
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Mancala
WikipediaMancala, History sectionQuote, Mancala, History section
According to some experts, the oldest discovered mancala boards are in 'Ain Ghazal, Jordan in the floor of a Neolithic dwelling as early as ~5,870 BC.
Reader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.
Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.
Frequently Asked Questions
What do the games in the Mancala Games category have in common?
They are sowing-and-capture pit games from anywhere in the world; grid-based capture games sit under Displacement and Capture Games instead.
Mancala Games covers the mancala family of sowing games, such as Bao, Congkak, Kalah, Mancala, Oware and Sungka, in which players distribute counters around pits to capture an opponent's counters. Any sowing-and-capture pit game in this family belongs here regardless of where in the world it is played, while grid-based capture games are grouped instead under Displacement and Capture Games.