Oware: Awalé Mancala

LionSoft Inc

In-app purchases

About this game

Oware, the ancient sowing game of Ghana and West Africa, finally has a calm, modern home.

Learn oware in minutes with a hands-on tutorial, then face an opponent that plays fair: an AI you can actually beat on easy, and one worth beating at the top of the ladder. Offline, no ads, no account.

KEY FEATURES
- Interactive tutorial: sow, capture, and win on a live board — you learn oware by playing, not by reading rules
- A fair AI ladder: from a genuinely beatable beginner to a deep, punishing expert — it never cheats and never sees hidden information
- Pass & play local multiplayer: two players, one phone, the classic way
- Free offline forever: the complete Abapa rules, the tutorial, and the easy AI, with no ads
- Your stats: games, wins, captures, and your climb up the ladder
- Board themes: wood, stone, and calabash skins

WHO IT'S FOR
Players who grew up with a physical oware, awalé, or ayo board and want the real game in their pocket — and abstract-strategy fans looking for a deep mancala-family classic with a credible opponent.

WHAT'S DIFFERENT
Most oware apps are abandoned, ad-choked, or ship an opponent players don't trust. This is a free offline mancala game that is maintained, has zero ads, teaches you to play properly, and whose AI follows exactly the rules you see. One honest one-time unlock opens the full AI ladder, themes, and stats — no subscription, no power-ups.

Born in Ghana and played across West Africa, oware belongs to the great sowing family: awalé and ayo, wari and bao, congklak, omweso and sungka. It is presented here with the respect the classic deserves.

PRIVACY
Your games and stats stay on your device. No account, no ads, no tracking of your identity; optional anonymous analytics can be turned off in settings. Privacy policy: https://docs.lionsoft.ca/public/oware-privacy-policy

Terms of use: https://play.google.com/about/play-terms/

Built by LionSoft. Questions? https://docs.lionsoft.ca/public/oware-support

What’s new

The tutorial now teaches by doing. Tap the ringed house and watch your own move play out: the seeds drop one at a time, and when you capture, those seeds travel across the board and into your store.

Captures are clearer everywhere in the game - the house that earned it shows its count, and the seeds visibly move to your store instead of just vanishing.