Sapele Style Mancala Board Game

DESCRIPTION “Ayò Olópón” popularly known as the Mancala Board game is an ancient, interactive, self-contained traditional game played by the Yoruba people of Nigeria in West Africa. Handmade from solid wood, the board “opon” is the carrying case composed of two rows with six holes on each side of the board (12 total holes), connected by 2 hinges and played with 48 seeds. The game requires strategy and critical thinking to move seeds around with the ultimate aim of winning more seeds than your opponent. Two individuals take turn to play this game, which runs anti-clockwise. At the beginning of the game, four (4) seeds are placed in each hole. Each player can only move seeds from their side of the board unless they are capturing their opponent’s seeds. Each turn, the player takes all seeds from any hole on their side of the board and sow them counterclockwise, one seed per hole. During each individual sowing, the starting hole is skipped. If the last seed of a player’s turn lands in a ho