1. Ali Guli Mane is played on a board with 14 large play space, 7 in front of each player.

2. Ali Guli Mane requires 70 BEADs.

3. 5 BEADs are placed onto each space.

4. Players decide who begins the game by rolling a die.

1. In turns, a player picks up all the BEADs from any of the spaces on their side of the board and redistributes them 1 BEAD per space in either a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction, including onto spaces on their opponent’s side of the board.

2. Captures happen when the play space next to the last BEAD redistributed is empty. The player captures all the BEADs in the space after the empty space, and all the BEADs in the space opposite the space BEADs were captured from.

3. If a capture cannot be made the same player starts redistributing BEADs from the next play space and continues in the same direction.

4. If upon completing the next play space is empty, the player can capture all the BEADs in the space after the empty space, and all the BEADs in the space opposite the space BEADs were captured from.

5. After the second redistribution, the turn is over regardless of whether a player has made a capture or not.

6. Play continues until all the BEADs have been captured.

To win the game, a player must have captured the most BEADs.

1. Ali Guli Mane is an abstract strategy board game of the mancala family, originating from Karnataka in South India. The name of the game, like that of many other mancala games across the world, is simply a description of the board used: it means a "wooden block with holes".

2. It is similar to Pallanguzhi from the neighbouring state of Tamil Nadu. There are also similarities with the traditional Indonesian Mancala game Congkak.