## Description

_Um El Bagara_ is one of a package of games produced by The Code Zone. Games
from this package were used, in various combinations, in around twenty
different game compilation packages.

_Um El Bagara_ is a single-player, strategy game that is played against the
computer. It is a traditional mancala game from Northern Africa whose name
translates as ‘The Cow Game’. This is a turn-based game played on a board with
two rows of five pits and two home pits. Pieces, or traditionally seeds, are
placed in these pits ad players take turns to move the seeds from the second
row either to the left or to the right, any that ‘wrap around’ are placed in
the top row. If the last seed played ends in one of the end pits of the top
row then the contents of that pit are transferred to one of the player’s home
pits. The objective for each player is to end the game with the most pieces in
their home pit.

The game is entirely mouse controlled. It is played in a window which cannot
be re-sized. The game has sound, four levels of difficulty, in-game help
screens, and a choice of playing piece, colour and screen background.

Um El Bagara