The Daily Mancala challenge for October 16, 2026: same opponent, same starting side, for every player in the world.
Friday begins the hard stretch: the computer now plans several moves ahead.
Daily #77, dated October 16, 2026: a single canonical setup that every visitor plays, timed from the moment you press Play.
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 full strength the computer counts the endgame early — hoard tempo, and do not let your side empty first on bad terms.
The archive holds 76 earlier boards. New to Kalah? Learn the rules step by step; veterans can study opening strategy instead.