Customer Reviews

DaVinci's Mancala Game

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This is a twist on the traditional Mancala. You have to think about strategy, how to block your opponent and how best to creat your Mancala designs. My sons and I love this game. We like Mancala anyway, this just adds an extra strategic dimension. Although we love it the pieces are a little difficult to manage on a flat board so we place a large African made mancala box on the board, it fits perfect and keeps all those pieces in control. Sadly, this game and the other related DaVinci games are no longer in production. However if you love strategy games and/or Mancala and if you find one, buy it!

I enjoyed playing this game with my 9 year-old son. He had a lot of fun too and won. It was very interesting to play this game after playing Mancala. The placement of the tiles and scoring for the different designs created make it more complex and requires more thought. It also took us a little longer to play than Mancala. I thought I would have to go easy on my son, but obviously I was wrong.

My kids love all things DaVinci, but even if you are not a DaVinci fan, this is a great mancala game. It can be played as regular mancala or you can try to make as many of the shapes on your side of the board as possible while preventing your opponent from doing the same.

We've had this game for over a year and it still gets pulled out of the closet quite a bit. Well worth having!

I was hoping to engender interest in Da Vinci in two grandsons with this game, but all it did was bore and confuse them.