Mancala · Adi / Num Num · capture-by-fours · relay sowing

Oware Nam Nam — playable simulator

Play two-handed, or set North to a computer opponent. On your turn, click one of your highlighted pits — the seeds sow round the board one at a time, lapping until the last lands in an empty pit. Any pit hitting four is captured.

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North · N6 ← N1

South · S1 → S6

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South to move — click a highlighted pit to sow.

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A snapshot of the board after every move, oldest first — North row on top, South below. Each card notes who moved and the running capture totals.

Watch for: when a seed lands making a pit reach four mid-sow, the pit's owner takes it — so you can accidentally feed your opponent. Only the very last seed of a turn captures for the mover. Pause or step to freeze a four the instant before it's lifted.

Rules being simulated ▾

Sow anticlockwise S1→S6→N1→N6→S1, one seed per pit; the starting pit is not skipped.
Capture by fours: any pit reaching exactly four mid-sow is emptied to its owner's store. The last seed of a turn captures a four for the mover instead.
Relay: if the last seed lands on an occupied pit, scoop it up and keep sowing. The turn ends only when the last seed lands in an empty pit (or makes a four).
A player with no seeds on their side misses their turn. (Multi-round re-dealing is not simulated — this is a single round.)
Last four: when a capture leaves exactly four seeds on the board, the player who took that four also sweeps the final four and the round ends.
If the final seeds just circulate with no capture for many turns, the round is declared a stalemate and the captures are tallied — the same outcome the traditional rules reach by agreement.
Fours are auto-captured here; in over-the-board play you can miss one, and a fifth seed forfeits it.
Review & branch: click any history card to replay that move; use "Play from here" to rewind and try a different line (later moves are discarded). "Save" gives a short code for the whole game — paste it back under "Load", or, on a hosted copy of this page, append it as #g=CODE to the URL.