http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mancalagames/ Group to discuss mancala games e.g. oware, bao and omweso Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:35:58 GMT Максат Шотаев http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mancalagames/message/2484 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mancalagames/message/2484 Dear Ralf! Dear Ralf! Good day! You wrote recently me the letter, and there was told about possible tournament next year in Germany. I wish to inform that next Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:09:47 GMT ?????? ?????? http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mancalagames/message/2483 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mancalagames/message/2483 Dear friends! Photos of 1 championship of Asia on togyzkumalak can be seen on this blog - http://my.mail.ru/community/togyz. A site in Russian. Yours Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:22:39 GMT truthforum2001 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mancalagames/message/2482 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mancalagames/message/2482 Results of Toguz Kumalak 1 Championship of Asia: Men: 1st place Aidos Seitzhanov (Kazakhstan) 2nd place Serik Aktayev (Kazakhstan) 3rd place Galymzhan Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:22:10 GMT truthforum2001 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mancalagames/message/2481 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mancalagames/message/2481 Awale.info is an interesting page, which gives lots of information on mancala games that cannot be found elsewhere. http://www.awale.info/ It's major drawback Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:52:34 GMT ninovessella@... http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mancalagames/message/2480 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mancalagames/message/2480 ... Messages to/from this group can be in Italian, English, Swahili or Esperanto! Ciao, Nino ... -- http://www.vessella.it (italiano, esperanto, kiswahili, Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:49:26 GMT Максат Шотаев http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mancalagames/message/2479 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mancalagames/message/2479 Dear Ralf! Good evening! I have received your letter. Excuse, for a delay the answer. I was to occupy very much. I will send one of these days you the book. I Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:40:17 GMT truthforum2001 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mancalagames/message/2478 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mancalagames/message/2478 Hello, I was just invited to join a very friendly Bao group on Yahoo: http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/bao_la_kiswahili/ If you like Bao and if you understand Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:08:01 GMT truthforum2001 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mancalagames/message/2477 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mancalagames/message/2477 Der deutschsprachige Radiosender "Radio Prag" über das große Turnier in Pardubitz / Ostböhmen. Da ist auch ein Interview mit mir zu Mancalaspielen (nix Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:46:10 GMT truthforum2001 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mancalagames/message/2476 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mancalagames/message/2476 Bao (Kenya) http://www.lamuhouse.net/pics_lamu/Bao_game.jpg Bawo (Malawi) http://images.travelpod.com/users/liss0/malawi.1170325320.playing_bawo.jpg O An Quan Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:40:04 GMT truthforum2001 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mancalagames/message/2475 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mancalagames/message/2475 Benedikt Rosenau, a connoisseur of the art of abstract strategy games, wrote a very interesting review on mancala games for BoardGameGeek: "In my experience, Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:15:49 GMT truthforum2001 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mancalagames/message/2474 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mancalagames/message/2474 Kalah 508 games Oware 386 games Toguz Kumalak 267 games Kauri 94 games Bohnenspiel 92 games Hawalis 90 games ... Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:54:22 GMT truthforum2001 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mancalagames/message/2473 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mancalagames/message/2473 ... to you, perhaps... not that much to me Games are said to be "designed", "invented" or "created". The basic meaning remains the same. "Design" might be Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:37:21 GMT ninovessella@... http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mancalagames/message/2472 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mancalagames/message/2472 ... term for the game family. ... Arabic, Well, "to create" and "to invent" have different meanings to us! As I tried to say, "manqala" it doesn't seem more Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:33:12 GMT ninovessella@... http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mancalagames/message/2471 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mancalagames/message/2471 ... How does that reply relate to my quoted question? How does it relate to the "invention" of the word "manqala"? In my previous reply I forgot to mention Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:33:32 GMT truthforum2001 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mancalagames/message/2470 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mancalagames/message/2470 ... Generic terms for our games in English: 1. mancala (mankala, manqala) 2. pit-and-pebble games 3. count-and-capture games 4. sowing games 5. African stone