Mancala is one of the oldest known two-player board games in the world. It is believed that the game began in ancient Africa. Mancala is a two-player turn-based strategy board game played with small stones, beans, or seeds and rows of holes or pits in a board or other playing surface. The objective is to capture stones from your opponent until one player claims all of the stones. The rules are simple to learn and a wide-range of strategies can be explored to try and outwit your opponent.