Makaala: Mancala & Kalah 3D

Makaala is Mancala the way it feels on a real table: a folding dark-mahogany board with brass hinges, glass gems that clink into carved pits, and rules you can learn in one minute and study for years.

Mancala is the oldest board game family in the world. For centuries it has been played under names like Kalah, Oware, Awale, Warri, Bao, Ayo, Sungka, Congkak, Dakon, Omweso and Gebeta. Makaala plays classic Kalah, the ruleset most people mean when they say mancala.

SOW, CAPTURE, GO AGAIN
Six pits a side, four seeds each, 48 seeds on the board. Land your last seed in your store to move again; land in an empty pit on your side to capture everything opposite. Every move is animated seed by seed, with haptics and glass-on-wood sound, so you always see exactly what happened. Seed counts stay visible on every pit, and a live win-probability bar plus a move log with instant replay turn each game into a lesson.

THREE OPPONENTS, ONE UNBEATABLE
Easy plays like a curious beginner. Medium grabs every extra turn and capture it can see. Hard searches eight moves ahead with a real minimax engine and thinks in the background, so the board never stutters. Track your rating against each one.

2 PLAYER, ONLINE OR OFFLINE
- Pass-and-play two player on one device, no internet needed.
- Online multiplayer with a six-letter room code, or quick-match a stranger. Moves sync in a fraction of a second, survive slow connections, and a dropped game restores exactly where it stopped.
- The whole single-player game works offline on a plane, a train or the subway.

PUZZLES AND A TUTORIAL THAT TEACHES
A fresh daily mancala puzzle every day: capture in two, win from here. Three stars for the cleanest solution. The hands-on tutorial spotlights each rule and can be replayed any time, so a complete beginner is playing properly inside five minutes.

VARIANTS AND HOUSE RULES
Standard Kalah, plus Oware-style and classic presets, 3 to 6 seeds per pit, skip-the-origin lapping and capture-on-empty. Every rule comes with an animated mini-diagram, so nobody argues at the table.

MADE TO BE LOOKED AT
Real-time glass refraction, soft shadows, shallow depth of field and a painted table lit by a window. Board themes preview live as you browse them. Dark, light and automatic modes. The board scales to any phone or tablet, in portrait or landscape.

FOR EVERYONE
Text up to 200%, high-contrast and colour-blind-safe gem shapes, screen-reader support with spoken move announcements, a left-handed layout, reduce-motion mode, and keyboard or game-controller play.

YOUR GAMES, EVERYWHERE
Stats, streaks, achievements and unfinished games sync through cloud save. Weekly leaderboards. Share a result card with one tap.

FREE, WITH ONE OPTIONAL PURCHASE
Makaala is free to play, supported by short ads between games. A single one-time purchase, Remove Ads, takes them away forever. Every board theme is free to everyone. Players in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are never shown ads at all.

Whether you grew up calling it mancala, kalah, oware, sungka, congkak or bao, this is the board game you remember, rebuilt in 3D.