Sungka: Congklak & Mancala
Filipino Board Game, Offline
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Now online: a match in any of 26 games, casual or ranked, with friends, emotes and leaderboards. Offline, on WiFi and pass and play as always.
Sungka is the classic Filipino mancala board game: two rows of seven houses, one ulo each, and shells sown counter-clockwise until the last one lands. Play it online with players anywhere, or offline: against the computer, with a friend on one phone, or at a table on your WiFi.
TWENTY-SIX GAMES, ONE BOARD
It opens on the game your language or country knows, and any other is a tap away.
• Sungka as it is played, both opening at once, or in turns with a coin toss.
• Congklak (congkak, congka): the same game sown clockwise, in its own words.
• Mancala (kalah, kalaha, bantumi), six houses of four; Mancala Basic, Japan's race to empty your side; and Dakon, Java's five of five.
• Ohvalhu (naranj), the Maldives' eight holes of eight cowries.
• Pallanguzhi (pallankuli), Tamil Nadu's seven holes of six cowries.
• Ô ăn quan (ô quan), Vietnam's five squares a side with a big one at each end that is nobody's, and Bày khòm, Cambodia's ten houses in an oval: sown either way, and a capture goes on.
• Oware (awalé, wari), Warri, Wahree and the Bohnenspiel: no store is sown, and a count takes.
• Mangala from Turkey, and Toguz kumalak (toguz korgool), Central Asia's nine holes of nine, where three makes a hole yours.
• Gebeta (gabata), three rows of six from Eritrea and Ethiopia: both open at once, and a capture takes the file across.
• Four rows, each player sowing round their own two: Hawalis (bao kiarabu) from Oman and Hus (otjitoto) from Namibia, where a capture takes the hole across and the one behind it; Moruba from South Africa and Tshuba from Mozambique, where it takes one more you pick besides; Omweso (mweso) from Uganda, laid out by its players; and Bao la kujifunza, East Africa's bao for beginners.
• Or set your own: houses a side, shells a house, laps, captures.
THE REAL RULES
• Sabog capture: land in an empty house of yours and take everything across from it.
• Extra turn when your last shell drops into your own ulo.
• Chains: land on shells and keep sowing.
• Play in turns, with a coin toss for the opener, or the traditional opening where both players start at once.
• Burnt houses, stranded shells and an optional match clock. Every rule is a switch.
FIVE COMPUTER LEVELS
From Baguntao, who is still learning, to Katas, who counts every shell. The computer's hand shows as a ghost so you can follow each move, and the top level will point at the best sow when you ask.
PLAY ONLINE
A match in any game in seconds, casual or ranked: a rating for each game, leaderboards for the world, your country and your friends, and daily quests. Add friends, invite them to a table, send an emote, play for coins. Or play offline: pass and play on one phone, or host a table on your WiFi, no account needed.
LEARN AND IMPROVE
Short lessons on a live board, for whichever game you pick: the board, sowing, the opening, the capture, extra turns, rounds and the endgame, each on that game's board and in its own words. A daily puzzle for each game. After every match: its turning point, your accuracy against the best sow and your rating.
MADE FOR THE MAT
Narra, kapis, marble, gold and ruby boards; cowries and round beads in kapis, gold, glass and stone; and mats, woven in many colours or floored in gold, jade and ruby, from the board shop. Two themes, Banig by day and Gabi by night. In 27 languages, English, Tagalog and Bisaya among them. Large text and screen reader support.
Collect coins every day you visit, for the day's puzzle, for every win against the computer and for watching an ad whenever you like. Your coins and board-shop items are kept on our server and follow your phone's game account to your other phones and tablets of the same kind, with your lessons and puzzles.
This is that board, faithfully, in your pocket. Contains ads and in-app purchases.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://sungka.puhgeh.com/privacy/
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• Every Saturday and Sunday, ads, wins against the computer, the day's coins, the daily puzzle and coin packs pay double.
• Every move now adds 5 seconds to your clock (not at Mangala). Online matches start with 15 minutes each.
• Out of time with half the pieces or more in your store? In most games that's a draw now, not a loss.
• Fixed: some daily puzzles didn't count as solved or pay coins when the last move ended the game.
• To play each other, both phones need this version.
• Your online rank and its tier's shield now show under your name, on Home and on your profile.
• Your profile now puts your online ranks first and says which matches change your ELO.
• Squashed some bugs, so a match ends more smoothly.
The developer, Axel Trajano, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Identifiers
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Location
- Contacts
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
- Other Data
Data Not Linked to You
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- Purchases
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Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Axel Trajano
- Size
- 79 MB
- Category
- Board
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Frequent
Contests
Contains
Advertising
Messaging and Chat
User-Generated Content
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Remove ads $3.99
- Sungka Plus Yearly $9.99
- Sungka Plus Monthly $0.99
- Sungka Pro Yearly $19.99
- Sungka Pro $1.99
- 2800 coins $19.99
- 1300 coins $9.99
- 600 coins $4.99
- 220 coins $1.99
- 100 coins $0.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Axel Trajano
