The Daily Mancala challenge for September 1, 2026: same opponent, same starting side, for every player in the world.
Tuesday stays friendly — a good day to work on setting up your first deliberate captures.
This is the September 1, 2026 edition — challenge #32 since launch. The setup is fixed for the whole world, which keeps bragging rights honest.
You sow the opening move on this board. On this 48-stone deal, exactly one of the six opening sows (pit 3) lands its last stone in the store for a free extra turn, and none of them exposes an immediate capture in reply, so the first exchange is about tempo rather than traps.
The easy opponent plays fast and forgiving; it is the right day to practice stringing store landings together.
The archive holds 31 earlier boards. New to Kalah? Learn the rules step by step; veterans can study opening strategy instead.