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Mancala Game

In this project, students will use lists, functions, and conditional statements to create an interactive game of Mancala.

Hard

8 Hours

High School

Project Description

In this project, you will create a console Mancala game in Python. Mancala is one of the oldest two-player games, with versions of the game played in the 6th and 7th century. The game derives its name from the Arabic word naqala, which means “to move.”

The Mancala game board typically looks like the image below:



You will be using a list to create the board so that the list items align with the board like this:



A sample run of your program could look like this:

Project Demo

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