Broderick considered himself to be one of the best stonemasons in the kingdom, but King Hammond seemed to favor his rivals when it came time to build another castle. But, Broderick had a plan. He knew that the King had two favorite pastimes, castles and Mancala. Few in the kingdom had ever heard of Mancala, but when Hammond was a boy he had traveled to exotic lands with his father and learned to love this game.
Broderick cleverly figured out a way to combine the two. He would build a miniature castle with a Mancala game board inside it. The mason knew the basic rules: 36 stones divided evenly into 12 pits (6 on each side) with 2 larger storage pits, one at each end. The players move the stones around the pits trying to capture as many as they can get into their storage pit.
Broderick made the castle and presented it to the King. Hammond loved it and when Broderick built the King's new castle overlooking the ocean, he had a special room just for his Mancala-Castle.

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