Great, great, game. We played a 4-player game where none of us had played before, but the rules weren't hard to figure out. Seems like it probably has a lot of complex strategy that none of us began to grasp. But just in terms of the part we could figure out during just a first game... it's so much fun! Less down time than in a lot of games, and so many different possibilities of how to play it. The whole Mancala thing is just so neat.