Cross-Kalah is a variant of the Mancala game Kalah. Cross-Kalah follows all the rules of Kalah except that holes with an odd number of beans sow clockwise, whereas holes with an even number continue to sow counterclockwise. As in Cross-Wari, the effect of this rule change is to create new tactics for keeping pieces on your side of the board and for controlling the direction of sowing. These tactics are more pronounced in Cross-Kalah because of the nature of capturing. By toggling holes from even-flowing to odd-flowing, the opportunities for sowing into an empty hole on your side (and thus threatening capture) are substantially increased.
 
For a complete statement of the rules, please read the "Game Description" in the Help menu. Cross-Kalah comes with four variants.
 
NOTE: Kalah has been substantially updated. A few bugs in the capturing rules have been fixed, hole capacity has been increased from 24 to 36 beans, and the code has been optimized in order to avoid loading problems that some users experienced.
Wari and Cross-Wari have also been updated (again!) to take advantage of ZoG v.1.3, to resolve a compatibility issue, and to correct a minor bug in the capturing logic.
If you have already downloaded these games, I recommend that you download the new versions: Kalah v.2.0, Wari v.3.0, and Cross-Wari v.1.1 (look in the "History" section to see what version you are playing).
Please note that if you are using a "p" version of ZoG, you must upgrade to v.1.3p to play any of these Mancala games.
 
Please send any comments or bug reports to dtroyka@justice.com.
 
For more Mancala games available on Zillions, check out the Mancala game page.