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Are Sungka and Congkak one underlying mancala tradition carried by migration, or two traditions that converged on nearly the same board and rules independently?

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Sungka is described as closely related to Congkak, differing mainly in direction of play, but the documented distribution of Southeast Asian mancala games across two separate waves, an early-19th-century wave into Malaysia, Indonesia and the Maldives and a 20th/21st-century Philippine wave, leaves the exact relationship (common ancestor, direct derivation, or convergent local variants of a shared regional form) unsettled.

What would resolve this A documented chain of transmission (trade routes, colonial-era records, migration records) connecting a specific historical Congkak-playing community to the Philippine game, or clear evidence of Sungka's independent local development.
OpenSoutheast Asian game history / ethnographyWikipedia, Sungka
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