Comparison

Mancala vs Peg Solitaire Game

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side โ€” with what reviewers say about each.

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Mancala

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The mancala games are a family of two-player turn-based strategy board games played with small stones, beans, or seeds and rows of holes or pits in the earth, a board or other playing surface. The objective is usually to capture all or some set of the opponent's pieces. (Wikipedia). There are a lot of games in the mancala family: oware, bao, omweso and so on. It's an implementation of several mancala games - kalah, oware, congkak. The game provides a board and a number of seeds or counters. The board has 6 small pits, called houses, on each side; and a big pit, called an end zone or store, at each end. The object of the game is to capture more seeds than one's opponent. Kalah rules: 1. At the beginning of the game, four (five to six) seeds are placed in each house. 2. Each player controls the six houses and their seeds on the player's side of the board. The player's score is the number of seeds in the store to their right. 3. Players take turns sowing their seeds. On a turn, the player removes all seeds from one of the houses under their control. Moving counter-clockwise, the player drops one seed in each house in turn, including the player's own store but not their opponent's. 4. If the last sown seed lands in an empty house owned by the player, and the opposite house contains seeds, both the last seed and the opposite seeds are captured and placed into the player's store. 5. If the last sown seed lands in the player's store, the player gets an additional move. There is no limit on the number of moves a player can make in their turn. 6. When one player no longer has any seeds in any of their houses, the game ends. The other player moves all remaining seeds to their store, and the player with the most seeds in their store wins. Oware rules: 1. At the beginning of the game, four (five or six) seeds are placed in each house. Each player controls the six houses and their seeds on the player's side of the board. The player's score is the number of seeds in the store to their right. 2. On his/her turn the player removes all seeds from one of his/her hous, and distributes them, dropping one in each house counter-clockwise from this house, in a process called sowing. Seeds are not distributed into the end scoring houses, nor into the house drawn from. The starting house is always left empty; if it contained 12 (or more) seeds, it is skipped, and the twelfth seed is placed in the next house. 3. Capturing occurs only when a player brings the count of an opponent's house to exactly two or three with the final seed he sowed in that turn. This always captures the seeds in the corresponding house, and possibly more: If the previous-to-last seed also brought an opponent's house to two or three, these are captured as well, and so on until a house is reached which does not contain two or three seeds or does not belong to the opponent. The captured seeds are placed in the player's scoring house. 4. If an opponent's houses are all empty, the current player must make a move that gives the opponent seeds. If no such move is possible, the current player captures all seeds in their own territory, ending the game. 5. The game is over when one player has captured more than half seeds, or each player has taken half seeds (draw).

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Peg Solitaire Game

Features
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Remove a peg by jumping over it with another until there is only one peg left.

Screenshots

Mancala4 screens
Peg Solitaire Game2 screens

Verdict

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The clearest difference is ads: Peg Solitaire Game at none against Mancala's shown. Peg Solitaire Game also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 weeks). Mancala's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.5). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mancala ships an update every 4 weeks, Peg Solitaire Game every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Mancala versus Peg Solitaire Game: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMancalaPeg Solitaire Game
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 2 days โ€” better
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 โ€” better18.5
Further details โ€” not scored
Size33 MB5 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperVadym KhokhlovSpeak Freely

In-app purchases

None

Mancala

No in-app purchases

None

Peg Solitaire Game

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mancala free?
Mancala is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Peg Solitaire Game free?
Peg Solitaire Game is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Mancala or Peg Solitaire Game have ads?
Mancala shows ads; Peg Solitaire Game does not.
Which is updated more often, Mancala or Peg Solitaire Game?
Mancala ships an update every 4 weeks, and Peg Solitaire Game every 2 days. Most recently, Mancala was updated on September 14, 2026 and Peg Solitaire Game on September 18, 2026.

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