The Daily Mancala challenge for October 1, 2026: same opponent, same starting side, for every player in the world.
Thursday keeps the tactical pressure on — watch which pits you leave loaded.
This is the October 1, 2026 edition — challenge #62 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.
At medium strength the computer punishes careless sows but still misses deep combinations — solid fundamentals win.
The archive holds 61 earlier boards. New to Kalah? Learn the rules step by step; veterans can study opening strategy instead.