To expand the literature, this study focuses on Bao from a sports tourism perspective by exploring the perception of Bao as sports tourism from the residents’ views. Existing literature on Bao as a board game is mostly from a historical, educational, and cultural angle, whilst there is less attention on the potential of Bao as sports tourism. Note that in this version, the number of paperclips, if any, in the end cup has no bearing on the game play.Īfter the students have played the game, it may be beneficial to hold a show-and-tell session.Sports tourism is one of the ways for countries to rebuild the tourism sector. The object of the game is to end your turn with all of the cups on your side empty (excluding, of course, your end cups). If, however, player one had selected the paper clips in the third cup from the right, he would have ended by placing his last paper clip in the end cup, he gets another turn and may select the paper clips in another of his cups, continuing in the same manner. If the first player had started with the right-most cup, he would have deposited one paper clip in his end cup, then continued around the board, depositing paper clips in his opponent’s first two cups. That player would then deposit a paper clip in the third cup from the right, the second cup from the right, and finally, the right-most cup. Players take turns picking up all the paper clips from one of their cups, (except for the right-end cups, which is where the players will collect their pieces) and redistribute the pieces around the board in a clockwise direction, beginning with the cup to the right of the one from which the player took the paper clips.Įxample: On the first turn of the game, player one picks up the paper clips from the fourth cup from the right. The side of the board closest to each player, as well as the end cup on each player’s right belongs to that player. Place the game board between the two players, with the larger cups on the right and left of the players. Below are the rules from Roger Louis Sinashon’s Web site:
Mancala rulea free#
There are many variations on the rules, so feel free to choose a different method of play. and explain the rules of Mancala to the class. Once the Mancala boards have dried and are ready to play with, hand out your play pieces - beans, paperclips, etc. Go ahead and decorate with markers, paint or anything else they’d like! Have them design their own board with symbols representing important aspects of their own lives, including landscapes they’ve seen or different agricultural types Americans use today.
Remind students of the use of symbolism in Mancala to represent agriculture, landscape and harvesting. Now the students are ready to decorate their games.Attatch these pieces using tape, glue or staples. Attatch the top pieces so they stick out enough to be the cups for the Mancala game. Take the two top pieces and attach them to the bottom of the remaining egg carton piece (side with cups).Halve the top of the carton, cutting width-wise down the middle.Cut the extra closure section off of the top of the egg carton.Instruct the students to cut the top off the egg cartons along the hinge and set the bottom (the egg-holding tray) to the side.Distribute decorating materials and egg cartons.See if children can pick up on the similarities and differences between the two. It may be best to show both African versions as well as American versions. You may use the information we’ve provided or research further.
Start the class with some basic historical information on Mancala. Suitable game pieces: beans, paperclips, buttons, etc.Egg cartons (one-dozen-sized container).This lesson would be best suited for a pre-museum visit and is a great way to introduce students to African culture. The decoration and creation of Mancala boards is said to represent agriculture and landscape a depiction of land being turned into a productive field through clearing plowing, irrigation, and harvesting. The slave trade brought the game to the Caribbean and the east coast of South America. North of the equator they use a “two-rank” board south of the equator, a “four rank” board is used. It is played all over Africa with two basic variations. Some even place Mancala among the oldest games in the world, with archaeological evidence reaching back perhaps as far as 6000 B.C.E. carved into the temple roofs of Memphis, Thebes and Luxor. Mancala is a generic name for this type of “count and capture” game and stems from the Arabic word which means “to move.” Examples of this game have been found in Egyptian ruins dated from 1400 B.C.E. A lesson plan by Rachel Burgess and Sarah Gamble from the University of Maine
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