Traditional Indian street game

Pallanguzhi (Mancala)

Pallanguzhi is a Tamil board game of sowing and capturing, part of the mancala family played around the world. It needs a wooden board with two rows of seven pits, a pile of seeds or cowrie shells, and two players facing each other.

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How it's played on the street

Put five seeds in each of the fourteen pits. Some homes start with more.
On your turn, scoop all the seeds from one pit on your side and drop them one by one into the pits that follow, going anticlockwise round the board.
When your last seed drops, pick up all the seeds from the next pit and keep sowing.
If the next pit is empty, take every seed from the pit just beyond it. That capture ends your turn.
Any pit that reaches four seeds while you sow is a pasu (a cow), and the player on that side takes them.
When the seeds run out, each player refills their pits from what they won. A pit you cannot fill is out of the next round, and the game ends when one side cannot fill any.

Other names

Ali Guli Mane Kannada
Vamana Guntalu Telugu
Kuzhipara Malayalam
Mancala the game family

How it plays in Vilayo

Sow the seeds round the fourteen pits and capture the most. Like every game in Vilayo, it is built in real 3D, and the touch controls do what your hands would do on the street.

Levels are short, and each one gives up to three stars. Easy, Medium and Hard tiers bring new grounds and harder challenges, and the whole game plays offline.