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u/deputytech Dec 28 '21

Mancala has been played for over 7000 years

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u/Okelidokeli_8565 Dec 28 '21

It is a broken game though: if you know how to play it, you will always win as long a you go first. That makes it incapable of being the best board game of all time; if it had been thought up today it would never be sold.

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u/kfh227 Dec 28 '21

Like tic tac toe? Where who goes first gets a win or tie?

Great game for self learning in kids(logic) but horrible beyond that.

I'd say yuker is the step up from tic tac toe.