Editing Mancala (section)

== Names and variants ==
{{See also|Southeast Asian mancala}}
[[File:Newone - ô ăn quan.jpg|thumb|Game of [[Ô ăn quan]] on New Year's Day ([[Tết]]) at [[Vinhomes Times City]], Ha Noi]]

The name is a classification or type of game, rather than any specific game. Some of the most popular [[List of mancala games|mancala games]] (concerning distribution area, the numbers of players and  tournaments, and publications) are:
* [[Bao (game)|Bao]] – played in most of [[East Africa]] including [[Kenya]], [[Tanzania]], [[Comoros]], [[Madagascar]], [[Malawi]], as well as some areas of [[Democratic Republic of the Congo|DR Congo]], and [[Burundi]].<ref>Hyde (1694), pp. 226-232</ref>
* Gebeta (Tigrinya: ገበጣ) – played in Ethiopia and Eritrea (especially in Tigray).
* [[Kalah]] – [[William Julius Champion Jr.|North American]] variation, the most popular variant in the [[Western world]].
* [[Omweso]] (''mweso'') – played in [[Uganda]], some players and tournaments also in the [[UK]].
* [[Oware]] (''awalé, awélé, awari'') – [[Ashanti people|Ashanti]], but played world-wide including Europe ([[England]], [[France]], [[Catalonia]], [[Portugal]]), where it is mostly played (but not exclusively) by expatriates; close variants in [[West Africa]] (e.g., [[Ayoayo|Ayo]] by [[Yoruba people|Yorubas]] ([[Nigeria]]), Ouri ([[Cape Verde]])) and Warri in the [[Caribbean]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/28302/oware|title=Oware|website=BoardGameGeek}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oware.org/history.asp|title=Oware – Played all over the world|website=oware.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AuZLAAAAYAAJ&q=Oware+game+Akan|title=African Games of Strategy: A Teaching Manual|date=February 7, 1982|publisher=African Studies Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign|via=Google Books}}</ref>
* [[Pallanguzhi]] – played in Tamil Nadu, India.
* [[Ovvaḷugoṇḍi]] – played in Maldives
* [[Songo (game)|Songo]] – played in [[Cameroon]], [[Equatorial Guinea]] and [[Gabon]], also among expatriates in [[France]].
* [[Southeast Asian mancala|Sungka]] – Popular variants are known as [[Southeast Asian mancala|Congklak]] (a.k.a. ''congkak'', ''congka'', ''tjongklak'', ''jongklak'') and [[Southeast Asian mancala|Dakon]] (or {{lang|jv|dhakon}}) – played in [[Indonesia]], [[Singapore]], [[Malaysia]], [[Philippines|the Philippines]] and [[Brunei]]; boards are often sold in fairtrade shops in [[Germany]] and other European countries. 
* [[Toguz korgool]] or Toguz kumalak – played in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, tournaments also in Europe.
*  [[Eson Khorgol]] (Mongolian: "nine balls"), also Eson Xorgol, played by the Kazakh minority in the aimag province of Bayan Ölgii in north-western Mongolia. The game was first described in 1963. 

Although more than 800 names of traditional mancala games are known, some names denote the same game, while others are used for more than one game. Almost 200 modern invented versions have also been described.