Captures in Mancala
If your last seed lands in an empty pit on your side, you capture it and every seed in the pit opposite. Learn Mancala captures. How Mancala works · lesson 4 of 5.
The lesson in words
If your last seed lands in an empty pit on your side, you capture: that seed and every seed in the opposite pit go into your store.
Your pit 3 is empty, and the pit opposite has 6 seeds.
Which pit’s seeds would end exactly in pit 3?
Try it: Make the capture.
Empty pits on your side are capture traps, for you and against you. Next: how the game ends.
Questions
Your pit 4 has 9 seeds and the pit opposite is empty. Is that dangerous?
Yes. If they can end a sowing in that empty pit, they take all 9 of yours.