A tag already exists with the provided branch name. Best Opening Move of Mancala Our candidate for the ideal opening is the sequence CF, which leaves the board configured as: This opening has the following strengths: It empties pit F early in the game, allowing Player1 to play a single stone from F into her mancala each time a single stone lands there. You signed in with another tab or window. Games Index HTML5 Games Flash Games Elementary Games Puzzle Games By choosing A, I know the score will become +1 in my favour; by choosing B I know it'll be +4 in my favour. Represents 1-ply of adversarial game search, or the number of moves used between two Mancala players: E.g. You can select a web site from the following list: Accelerating the pace of engineering and science. The game ends when a player can no longer move any stones. This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository. This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository. Thanks to all authors for creating a page that has been read 221,307 times. Either of these responses, however, leaves her in the weakened board position of having each of her remaining holes populated with enough stones to play around to Player1's side, thus reinforcing a starving strategy by Player1. This move is considered to be the ideal opening. There are two sequences that can achieve this. Is There a First-Player Advantage? If nothing happens, download GitHub Desktop and try again. The @ is called the 'store' where seeds are accumulated, as points. Cannot retrieve contributors at this time. Your best response looks to be clearing the 5th pit. Each player controls the six small pots closest to them. The solver uses alpha beta pruning. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. These movements are far easier to anticipate. {"smallUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/images\/thumb\/9\/90\/Win-Mancala-Step-1.jpg\/v4-460px-Win-Mancala-Step-1.jpg","bigUrl":"\/images\/thumb\/9\/90\/Win-Mancala-Step-1.jpg\/aid5349776-v4-728px-Win-Mancala-Step-1.jpg","smallWidth":460,"smallHeight":345,"bigWidth":728,"bigHeight":546,"licensing":"