Paper Games
Printable Mancala Board
A count-and-capture board for one of the oldest games in the world. Fill the pits with beans, beads or pebbles and play on paper.
What you can customize
- Pits per side
- Boards per page
Works well in
- Traveler's Notebook Passport
- A6
- Traveler's Notebook Regular
- B6 (JIS)
- A5
- US Half Letter
- B5 (ISO)
- A4
- US Letter
All page sizes, from Passport to A4
Try it in another style
Start from a preset
- Mancala board, US Letter Six pits per side and two stores. Open in the maker →
- Mancala board, A4 The same on A4. Open in the maker →
- Two boards, A4 Two boards for two games at once. Open in the maker →
A board you can play on
The board stands upright on the page: two columns of pits with a store at each end. Each player owns the column nearest them and the store on their right.
How to play
- Put four seeds in every pit.
- On your turn, take all the seeds from one of your pits and sow them one by one into the following pits, counter-clockwise, including your own store.
- Last seed in your store: play again. Last seed in an empty pit on your side: capture it and the seeds opposite.
- When one side is empty, the game ends. The fullest store wins.
Free sample PDFs
Print at 100% (actual size). Made with the same engine as the maker, so the spacing is exact.
Frequently asked questions
What do I need to play?
48 small objects: dried beans, beads, pebbles or sweets, four per pit.
Which version are these rules?
The rules card uses kalah, the most common Western version. The board also suits oware and other mancala games.
Related guides
- How to print a booklet double-sidedPrint your notebook PDF at actual size, choose the right duplex setting, and get pages that come out in the right order after folding.
- Calibrate your printer for exact sizesMeasure your printer once so pages print at exactly the right size, find its unprintable margins, and line up the front and back of each sheet.
- Paper sizes, margins and binding allowanceWhich printer paper fits which notebook size, how to set margins and the binding margin, and when to use bleed and creep.
