Igisoro: Rwanda Mancala Game

The traditional sowing-and-capture game of Rwanda and Burundi — chain relay captures into your opponent's territory. Real AI or pass-and-play, no ads.

Igisoro brings the traditional board game of Rwanda and Burundi to your phone — a mancala relative built entirely around one deep, distinctive mechanic: the relay capture.

HOW IT'S DIFFERENT The board is 4 rows of 8 pits — 32 in all, 64 seeds total — and your territory is the two rows closest to you. Choose a pit in your own territory and sow its seeds one by one around your territory only. Land your last seed in an occupied pit and you keep going, picking up and re-sowing from there. Land in an occupied pit where BOTH of your opponent's pits in that same column also hold seeds, and you may sweep all of them into play, re-sowing from the pit where your turn began — or decline and take the plain relay instead. Chains like this can sweep across the whole board in a single turn.

PLAY YOUR WAY

• Three AI difficulty levels, from a casual opponent to a real challenge
• Local two-player pass-and-play on the same device
• A full walkthrough built in, plus a How to Play button whenever you need a refresher
• No ads, no gambling, no chip economy
• Works completely offline

From the makers of Fanorona, Surakarta, and Dara — Igisoro brings the same care for real rules and a real AI to a game that's been played in Rwanda and Burundi for generations.