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Modern sowing games are often modifications of traditional mancala games. In contrast to traditional games, their rules are handed down by written records rather than by talking and their inventor is still known. Some invented games may, however, be turned into traditional games through a process called 'folklorization' in social sciences. Kalah is already firmly rooted in the popular culture of America and Germany. The tables below list 202 games.

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rdfs:comment	Modern sowing games are often modifications of traditional mancala games. In contrast to traditional games, their rules are handed down by written records rather than by talking and their inventor is still known. Some invented games may, however, be turned into traditional games through a process called 'folklorization' in social sciences. Kalah is already firmly rooted in the popular culture of America and Germany. The tables below list 202 games.
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abstract	Modern sowing games are often modifications of traditional mancala games. In contrast to traditional games, their rules are handed down by written records rather than by talking and their inventor is still known. Some invented games may, however, be turned into traditional games through a process called 'folklorization' in social sciences. Kalah is already firmly rooted in the popular culture of America and Germany. The birth of modern sowing games is linked to the rise of capitalism and the game industry (see Mangola and Chuba). Several games were patented (e.g. Banking Ball Game, Robertson's Mancala Game, and Balduman's Mancala Game), although only a few of them were eventually marketed (Kalah). Many games were designed by mathematicians as research problems, but may not be very playable for humans (Ioiwari, Stones in Cups, Nano-Wari). The advent of the internet made it far more easier to communicate new rules and so fostered an unprecedented growth of new games. These modern games often employ totally new concepts which makes it increasingly difficult to define them as mancala games, so the more general term "sowing games" is used here instead. There are games with reverse sowing (Bulgarian Solitaire and its variants), simultaneous sowing (55Stones), cards (Octagon, Druidenwalzer, Rondell), and stacking (Rondell, Martian Mancala, Pyramidis). Several games are using a two-dimensional board topology. And yet, many invented games are still defined along the characteristics of traditional ones (sowing, cycles, undifferentiated counters, one-dimensional board topology). Most often they are variants of Oware or Dakon as these traditional mancala games are best known in Europe and America. The tables below list 202 games.

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