Highly recommend this talk on the (truncated) history of board games, including Mancala! I got lost down the rabbit hole of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taikyo

Highly recommend this talk on the (truncated) history of board games, including Mancala! I got lost down the rabbit hole of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taikyoku_shogi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taikyoku_shogi for quite awhile.