Betshezi

A warm mancala game on a carved wooden board with six houses on each side and a store at each end. Lift every grain from one of your houses and drop them one by one round the board, skipping your rival's end bowl, and fill your own faster. Sow • Land your last grain in your own store and you take another turn. • Land it in an empty house of yours with grains opposite and you capture both. • When one side runs dry, each player sweeps what is left to their own end, and the larger tally finishes first. Sprout • Quick match: face a keeper at three levels, Sprout, Grower and Elder, who looks seven moves ahead. • Choose 3 to 6 grains per house and who sows first, you, the keeper or taking turns. • A hint lamp suggests a strong move whenever you want one, and Pass and play lets two people share one phone. Gather • Story trail: 12 chapters, each with its own keeper, village scene, grain count and opening player. Some chapters use open captures, where a capture counts even with an empty house opposite. • Stars from one to three depend on your margin at the end, and each chapter opens after the one before. • Boards and sets: 6 boards such as Acacia, Terracotta and Riverstone, plus 6 sets of beads, pebbles, shells and glass, unlocked through play. Store • Stats and history: matches, finishes in first place against the keepers, widest margin, captures, store landings, grains sown and a journal of the last 25 matches. • Board-game lore: 10 questions per round from 26 real facts on the mancala family and the oldest board games we know, plus a How to sow guide in 7 cards. • The animated background lets grains and olive leaves fall slowly over warm sand. You can switch it off in Settings, next to haptics and a progress reset. • The game plays fully offline, needs no account and has no sound.