# Awele/Oware - Mancala HD — user reviews > 27 indexed App Store user reviews of Awele/Oware by SOLILAB, rated 4.00/5 from 8 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/aweleoware-mancala-hd/id289217958/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/aweleoware-mancala-hd/id289217958.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 4 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 0 ## Newest reviews (7 of 27) ### 4/5 — Oui *2015-06-22* Toujours parmi les meilleurs ### 4/5 — Great game *2013-03-16* Love the sounds, layout, design...makes me feel like I'm playing the real thing. For the next update, please disable sound so I can continue to play music in the background. ### 4/5 — Love this app *2009-08-23* Initial problem when i first bought app but got very quick response and now i love it. Loved this game when i travelled in Africa and its very addictive although very simple ### 3/5 — Ok *2008-09-23* The game itself is fun, reminds me of playing the board game with my dad as a kid, but the touchscreen interface for the main start up page doesn't seem to work well for me. I have to keep tapping an option to get it to work. ### 4/5 — Super *2008-09-20* Je jouais a ce jeu, il y a 20 ans sur Mac se. A quant un Airborne sur iPhone/touch. ### 4/5 — Good Game Overall *2008-09-01* This is a good familiar game, bantumi from the early nokias, with just a few little things wrong like the really bad English throughout the game and some of the menu buttons not working straight away when selected. Overall though a good game... ### 5/5 — love this game *2008-09-01* I've played this game for years. This is very good. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — La descripción no es cierta *2016-12-10, version 1.009* Entre otras cosas en la descripción pone diversos idiomas pero realmente solo tiene francés e inglés, muy mal engañar en la descripción ### 1/5 — Funktioniert nach Update nicht mehr *2015-04-26, version 1.009* Ärgerlich - nach dem letzten Update beendet sich die App beim Start sofort wieder.... ### 1/5 — Too jittery *2015-04-13* Over fast jittery movement made it hard to follow the action. Also game did not seem to play properly eg when you land a seed in the house t should land in the house, not somewhere else. Waste of time. ### 1/5 — Unclear *2009-01-01* Nice game but not complete instructions? ### 1/5 — NOT MANCALA *2008-10-01* These are by far not the rules of mancala. What a rip off. Refund please. ### 1/5 — Absurd rules, NOT MANCALA!! *2008-09-19* I feel ripped off. This game claims to be Mancala but fails to deliver. Although I have nothing against the visual aspect of this application, the rules for this game are absurd! THIS IS NOT MANCALA. A simple google search for 'how to play mancala' will reveil how the game is supposed to be played. Your supposed to deposit stones in your own bank when you go around, but this game does NOT. It also uses these confusing and rediculous capture rules of landing in a pile of 2-3 stones is a capture, as well as capturing stone piles behind it. The instructions are a joke. The developers broken English is so hard to follow I can't even figure out what rules he IS going by! All in all, DONT GET THIS!!!! Unless you play by these weird alien rules that I can't even find on the Internet, look at another choice for apps than this. There is currently a 99 cent version that uses the proper rules, so I have bought both and the cheaper one is true Mancala, I don't know what this is. ### 1/5 — Ganz ok *2008-09-01, version 0* Kenne das Spiel mit anderen Regeln die meiner Meinung nach wesentlich interessanter sind. Hier gibt es leider nur eine Variante und die ist zudem noch recht einfach. Vielleicht kommen ja neue Spielvarianten in einem Update. Für dieses Spiel gibt es schließlich zahlreiche Varianten. Die Steuerung ist einfach und die Grafik ist auch ganz nett. Und weil es eigentlich mein Lieblingsspiel ist (mit anderen Regeln) geb ich drei Sterne dafür. ### 2/5 — NOT Mancala *2026-06-17* Perhaps this is an ancient version of what became mancala. I don’t know; but it’s quite different from the game that usually goes by that name. ### 2/5 — Sans le son svp *2009-07-25* Impossible de continuer à écouter de la musique en utilisant ce jeu, c'est déprimant ### 3/5 — Good game, but poor instructions *2008-09-29* I played Mancala a number of years ago and was excited to see this game. My main complaint is that the instructions are not clear. I would suggest that they need to have a native english speaker edit the instructions. I was able to eventually figure it out, but only because I've played Mancala before. I don't think the rules are exactly like Mancala, but that's OK. It's still a fun game to play. At the medium level, it is a challenge to win. I probably win now about 40% of the time. I have had problems with the menus not being sensitive enough. I have to tap fairly hard to get it to accept my input. Once in the game, it is fine. I do have one major problem right now in that Awele crashes every time I try to start it. I quit Awele before I finished a game and now I can't go back to that game or restart a new one. I'm REALLY hoping they come out with a new version soon. I'll probably just reinstall the game for now and hope it works. If they improve the instructions and fix the bugs, then I'd be willing to give this game 5 stars. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — St *2012-08-16* I am proud to see this on apple.... I am proud to be African.... ### 5/5 — Bon jeu *2012-07-10* Comme si on y était ! ### 5/5 — Awesome *2012-06-13* This is the best game ever!!! You've gotta get cause it is AWESOME and great and I am the first to buy it so I would know because no one else has bought it!!! ### 5/5 — Awsome *2010-10-20* I just came back from Cape Verde where they play this game and they call it boril which stands for bank of oril and I love it. I have the real game too and it just the same as the App game is awesome Stress Free! as they say in Cape Verde. ### 5/5 — Très bon : sans fioritures *2009-07-12, version 0* Le jeu est simple, mais possède toutes les fonctions nécessaires. Le niveau de jeu "hard" n'est pas imbattable. Les perfectionnistes regretteront seulement que les règles ne soient pas rédigées dans un anglais très académique ! ### 5/5 — Enfin un Awele ! *2008-12-30* Bon début pour ce jeu, mais la performance du moteur d'intelligence artificielle a été fortement amelioré par les récentes maj. Je ne suis pas in expert mais je joue régulièrement depuis longtemps, il faut etre très attentif pour arriver à battre la machine. Excellent jeu ! A telecharger pour les amateurs ! ### 5/5 — Fantasic game *2008-10-14* Thank you for this game quite interesting game I play it daily . Olaoya ### 5/5 — Muy entretenido *2008-09-03, version 0* Hace años un amigo me enseño a jugar este entretenido juego de mesa, me gusto tanto que lo busque pero no lo encontre. Resulta que ahora lo encuentro para el Iphone. Vale su precio, muy bien diseñado y agradable. Las instrucciones se encuentran fácil en internet y en 2 minutos ya estas enganchado. Lo recomiendo de verdad ### 5/5 — Works brilliantly.... *2008-09-03* Installed without a hitch and works well. Great game to play and a lot of strategy comes into play. ### 5/5 — Omg *2008-09-02* I love this game :) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-05.*