AL MANQALUH

AL MANQALUH

It is an old popular game frequented by the elderly It consists of small recesses on wooden panels and uses pebbles or small wooden balls It is also considered a fully mathematical game, and it has many ramifications similar to those found in the game of chess, as it requires the player to accurately calculate his movements and the consequences thereof.

The way of playing : 1. The beads are placed in the 14 holes, so that there are 7 beads in each hole. 2. To find out who started the game, a toss. 3. The first one begins by taking the kernels from one of the pits and starts distributing them in a hole in a counterclockwise direction. If he finishes drilling that belongs to him, then he moves to the pits of his colleague. 4. When he finishes distributing his pits, the second player starts playing the same way. 5. With the continuation of the game, the number of kernels in each hole varies in number, as each player, while playing his teammate, counters the beads in each of the holes that belong to him to distribute them appropriately. With a simple math, he can figure out which pits will start distributing their kernels for profit

6. If, at the end of the distribution, a player reaches a hole with one grain in it, so that if he added to it the last pill in his hand, there would be two pills in the pit, then he wins the two pills, whether it is in a hole belonging to him or his teammate. 7. The player also wins if he ends up in a hole with three grains, so that if he added to it the last one in his hand, it becomes four, or as it is said (a phase), then he wins the four beads. 8. Likewise, he wins all the kernels in successive pits if he ends up with them and becomes in each unit a pair of kernels or \"phase\". 9. Each player raises a house or two houses (and the house here is the hole in which the player collects the largest number of beads) to settle the game at the end. 10. The player who wins the most number of pellets at the end of the game is deemed to have won.