The Daily Mancala challenge for October 20, 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.
Board #81 in the daily series lands on October 20, 2026. Everyone faces the identical deal, so the score you bank is directly comparable.
The first sow belongs to the computer today. 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.
Expect a lenient game: the easy engine rarely punishes a loaded pit, which makes it a good day to rehearse capture setups.
The archive holds 80 earlier boards. Refresh the capture rule in the how-to-play guide before you sow, or replay earlier challenges once this board is banked.