Game

Kalah

Sow counter-clockwise, chain free turns, fill your store.

Forty-eight seeds, twelve pits and one store each, and every seed you gather stays gathered. Land your last seed in your store and you move again; land it in an empty pit on your own side and you take the pit facing it too.

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Choose a variant

Four seeds

DefaultRated

The standard game: four seeds in each of the twelve pits, forty-eight in all.

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Three seeds

Rated

Thirty-six seeds, short games, and mistakes that punish you at once.

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Six seeds

Rated

Seventy-two seeds, long laps, and a slow build instead of early traps.

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Every rule of the game in plain language, with a section per variant.

Where it comes from

The history of the game and the people who play it.

Step-by-step tutorial

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Online play is being set up

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