User:Mancala lover
From Wikimanqala
Welcome and "Hallo"!
My name is Ralf Gering. I live in Germany, in a tiny village between Bonn and Koblenz. My favorite hobbies are mancala games, hiking, cooking and animals (i have three chicken and two running ducks). In my spare time I co-moderate the Yahoo!Group mancalagames, a gorgeous forum founded by the British Oware player Paul Smith. I have studied Culture and Religion at Tübingen University and graduated in 1999 (Master of Arts).
My favourite Mancala games are Togus kumalak (German spelling ;-), Lamlameta, 55Stones, Kauri and Layli Goobalay (as played in Berbera, Somaliland).
I have invented numerous Mancala games: 55Stones (2002), Afrika (2004), Geisterfahrer (2004), Pas de Deux (2004), Progressive Mancala (2004), Rondell (2005) and Kauri (2006). In addition, I suggested some meta-games such as Condi Mancala (2006) and Royal Mancala (2006). There are also a few other board games I authored: Netak (1973), Doppelt hält besser (mid-1970s), Dornröschendame (1986), 1000-Volt-Go (1988; tournaments in Germany and the USA), Walking Purchase (2001) and Écoute-moi! (2002).
In my library, I have a small collection of Mancala boards (about 20), a growing number of monographs (21 at the moment) and research articles on mancala (more than 400).
Here, I have written 144 Mancala articles (about 71% of all Wiki articles as of September 24, 2006), most of them for the 'old' WikiManqala which started in 2004.
I also authored numerous articles for the Canadian Abstract Games magazine. In 2002/2003 I was a jury member of the Simultaneous Game Design Competition sponsored by About Abstract Games and Abstract Games magazine. What a pity - there wasn't even a single mancala game!
My Wiki Articles
Modern Mancala Games
- 4-player mancala
- 55Stones
- Afrika
- Ägyptisches Muschelspiel
- Amboseli Game
- Atomic Wari
- Austrian Solitaire
- Awele Bohnanza
- Balduman's Mancala
- Banan-Cala
- Banking Ball Game
- Basic Crossroads
- BohnDuell (merged with "Cups")
- Bulgarian Solitaire
- Calady
- Chuba
- Circular Composition
- Cirk
- Cross-Endodoi
- Cross-Kalah
- Cross-Wari
- Cups
- Fergen Goobalay
- Geisterfahrer
- Glass Bead Game
- Ioiwari
- Kalah
- Kauri
- Kid-Cala
- long night game
- Mancala Spellorama
- Mankka
- Micro-Wari
- MiniMancala
- Monokalah
- Montreal Solitaire
- Multitchouka
- Nano-Wari
- Nasty Crossroads
- Njakas's Mancala
- Nyakun
- Partisan Sowing
- Pas de Deux
- Progressive Mancala
- Random Bulgarian Solitaire
- Reaping
- Robertson's Mancala
- Rondell
- Ruma
- Sahara
- Sowing
- Space Walk
- Stones in Cups
- Tchoukaillon
- Tornado
- Two-dimensional Sowing
- Two-handed Bulgarian Solitaire
- Yann's Mancala Problem
Traditional Mancala Games
- Adji-boto
- A-i-ú
- Alemungula
- Ali Guli Mane
- Andada
- Anywoli
- Aw-li On-nam Ot-tjin
- Ban-Ban
- Bao Kiarabu
- Baré
- Bohnenspiel
- Bosh
- Carolina Solitaire
- Cenne
- Congkak
- Dakon
- Daramutu
- El Arnab
- En Gehé
- Eson Korgool
- Giuthi
- Huroy
- J'erin
- Kâra
- Katro
- Kisolo
- Kotu-baendum
- Lahemay waladat
- Lamlameta
- Latho
- Layli Goobalay (Large Board)
- Luuth
- Mandoli
- Mangala
- Mefuvha
- Moruba
- Mwambulula
- Nsolo
- Obridjie
- Omweso
- Pasu Pondi
- Qelat (Beni Amir & Mensa)
- Qelat (Keren)
- Rio kadalis
- Sadeqa
- Selus
- Sungka
- Tap-Urdy
- Tchonka
- Tok Ku Rou
- Um El Bagara
- Unee tugaluulax
- Vai lung thlan
- Warra
- Wauri
- Weikersheimer Mancala
Other Mancala-like Games
- Conga
- Eppstein's Mancala
- Gretrix
- Unstack
Meta-Games and Generic Terms
- Blind Mancala
- Condi Mancala (renamed "Condi metarule"
- Cross-Mancala
- Kid-Cala (merged with "Kid-Cala (game)")
- Mancala Bohnanza
- Reverse Mancala
- Royal Mancala
Other Terms related to Mancala
- Awari Oracle
- Board
- Lap (renamed "Ways of sowing")
- Playing Pit (renamed "Pit")
- Row
- Seed
- Store
People related to Mancala
- Alexander Johan de Voogt
- Christian Freeling
- Jeff Erickson
- Mark Steere
- Richard Pankhurst
Mancala Lists
- List: Films (renamed "Films")
- List: Modern Mancala Games (renamed "Modern mancala games"
- List: Tournaments (renamed "Tournaments")
- Literature
Dictionaries
- Bao dictionary (together with Víktor Bautista i Roca).
- Hus dictionary
- Omweso dictionary
Recent developments
Contrary to the Wiki spirit the owner of this Wiki reverts edits in an autocratic manner although he has never read the sources on which the original text was based. He has also insisted on spelling mistakes, grammatical mistakes and semantic errors. It seems that true cooperation is not possible.
