Seedcairn

Seedcairn is Kalah mancala on a carved wooden board. Pick one of your six pits and the seeds are sown one by one, visibly, around the board. Plan two moves ahead: a last seed in your store means another turn, and a last seed in an empty pit of your own steals the whole pit opposite.

Every pit you point at shows where its last seed will land and whether it earns an extra turn or a capture, so you can learn the game while you play.

• Standard Kalah: 6 pits, 4 seeds each, extra turn on the store, capture from an empty own pit, leftover seeds go to their side
• Three AI opponents: Sprout (easy), Bramble (medium) and Old Cairn (hard, alpha-beta search 8 moves deep)
• Two players: hot-seat mode on one screen
• Landing preview: the target pit is marked, with extra-turn and capture hints
• Animated sowing with live seed counts on every pit and store
• Coaching: in your first games a hand points at pits that earn an extra turn or a capture, and a Hint button suggests a move any time
• Ladder: beat Sprout and the result screen offers Bramble next, then Old Cairn
• Keyboard, mouse or touch; wins against each AI are saved

Code and text written with AI assistance; checked by PN Scripts with automated tests. Every shape is drawn and every sound synthesised by code; there are no AI-generated image or audio files.

Controls

• Left/Right or 1-6: choose a pit, Enter / Space: sow it
• Mouse: hover a pit to preview where the last seed lands, click to sow
• Touch: tap a pit to preview, tap it again to sow
• H / Hint button: mark the pit the Bramble AI would sow
• Menu: Up/Down + Enter or 1-4, or tap an opponent
• P / Esc: pause, M: sound

Made by PN Scripts.