What is it?
The game begins with 4 stones or playing pieces in each pit. The human player makes the first move.
The player picks up all the pieces in one of their pits and sows the pieces, one in each pit, around the board counter-clockwise. If there are enough pieces, the player continues sowing into the pits on the opponent's side of the board.
A player may capture the pieces in their opponent's pit if their last piece is sown into a pit in which there is two or three stones. The player then gets to capture all of the pieces in that pit, as well as all of the pieces in any preceding pit that has two or three stones in them on the opponent's side. All captured pieces are placed in the player's end pit.
When all six pits on one side of the board are empty, the game is over. The player who still has playing pieces in their own pits gets to put them in their end pit. The winner is the player with the most
stonesor pieces in their end pit.
To my knowledge, Arthur Crump is the only one who ever programmed a seperate Kalah (Mancala 3000) and Wari. Most programmers stuck to one ruleset or made a game that could be played according to either. Furthermore it is one of the latest Windows 3.1 games I know.
Wari 2000 runs in 16 colors, but has a custom palette if your desktop has 256 colors or more. The screenshot above shows this custom palette, which has lighter colors than the Windows default.
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