Mancala Time is a website dedicated to playing the game Mancala. Mancala is a game that was originally played in ancient Africa with beans. Today, however Mancala has spread all over the world.

Mancala Time allows people to play live games of Mancala with others from all over the world. You can choose to play the computer, or take on another live person.

On the homepage, click on the stats tab to see your win/loss ratio, where you rank against other's playing Mancala Time, and also check out how everyone else is doing in their matches by clicking on their names in the top ten list.

You may play Mancala with 1-2 players.
One single player can choose to play the computer or two people can play against each other (on separate computers).

To play against another live person:

• Check the Mancala Time homepage, or game lobby to see if anyone has an open game that you can join. You can find these games under the heading "Play a Human".
• If there are any games available, they will be listed directly below.
• If there are currently no open games, click the button labeled "start new game" located directly above the list of games available and wait to see if anyone will join you!

To play the computer:

• Go to the Mancala Time "Game Lobby" and look under the heading "Play a Robot".
• There are three robots listed here that you can choose from.
• To the right of each robot's name is the difficulty ranking, for example if you want the easiest choose Rex. The lower the name is on the list, the harder they will be to beat so good luck!

If you are unsure about the rules, see the How to Play section of this site.

• jack angers programmed the site.
• Cesar Torres did the design: logo, layout, gameboard, you name it.
• Fam Fame Fam Silk Icon set by Mark James
• MooTools javascript framework
• phatfusion's multibox by Samuel Birch
• Javascript Browser Sniffer by Pau Garcia i Quiles