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please explain the game...?

Use to play this game at school.
Great to see it being played, like this shot!
How this game is played in different parts of Africa is amazes me.

@ Suddijons; its not a old peoples game, the young have lost interest, I think.

@ King-K; Players begin by placing a certain number of seeds, prescribed by the variation in use, in each of the pits on the game board. A player may count their stones to plot the game. A turn consists of removing all seeds from a pit, sowing the seeds (placing one in each of the following pits in sequence), and capturing based on the state of board. This leads to the English phrase "Count and Capture" sometimes used to describe the gameplay.

Check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mancala for more info.