Kalah

Kalah is an adaptation of the board game with the same name, which is part of the Mancala family of games. The game is played by one player against an AI opponent. Each player has six round pits and a Kalah, which is a longer pit. When starting out three stones are evenly distributed to the round pits. The aim of the game is to collect more than half of the stones in the player's Kalah.

In each round the player takes all stones from one pit and distributes them anti clockwise around the board with one in each pit. If the last stone lands in the players' own Kalah, they must make one more move. If the last stone ends in a pit on the player's side and the pit on the other side is empty, all stones in that pit will be captured. The game stops if no more moves can be made by the players and the opponents then get to count their remaining stones to their total or when one player has more than half of the stones.

While the game can be played with two players, either or both can also be substituted by the computer. When a player is on turn the space bar can be pressed to let the computer make the move. The state of the game is displayed on a CRT or printed on a teletype printer. When the game finishes the computer declares which player won and what the final score was.