Mankala Platypus

Color Hypercard Mankala 3.0 is a plug-in module from the Platypus Collection. It requires Hypercard 2.1 or Player (or higher), 4 Megabytes or more of of RAM and a color Mac. It has been extensively tested on system 7.1, and has been run through system 6.0.8. IT ALSO REQUIRES a shared resource stack called PLATYPUS COMMON, available at the same sources as this file. Please read the documentation. Mankala (an African strategy game) takes about a minute to learn to play. Basically you deal out little black stones from your side around the board clockwise, trying to capture as many from your opponent's side as possible, while at the same time not leaving your side in a vulnerable state. For such a simple game, the complexity of the strategy is remarkable. Mankala 2.0 is a color retrofit of the original freeware version. The basic workings are pretty much the same. The look and feel are a lot jazzier and journalizing has been added so that you may print out the moves if you like. There are a lot of Mankala games around. This one has the best look and feel of any I've seen. Play is realistic, has black stone graphics instead of numbers, and they move at a human speed. Platypus' Mankala boasts a handsome 8 bit color board from the rare borafunkgungo tree -the only tree in the world with a repeating grain! Shareware $5.00 Mankala 2.0 may be distributed by individuals, Sysops, online services and CD companies as long as it is not sold for profit. We would like to know about CD's and online services though! Platypus Software P.O. Box 1591 Corvallis, OR 97339