Some research has suggested the use of mancala games in mathematics education. The immediate concepts associated with playing mancala games have been limited to counting as well as addition and subtraction, so the potential of mancala has remained limited to primary school education. This proposed adaptation of a mancala game allows for teaching elementary concepts of combinatorial game theory, discrete mathematics, and search algorithms. Such topics are commonly--although not exclusively--reserved for university teaching, and the material is designed in such a way that questions can be made either more or less complicated or labor intensive, depending on the needs of the teacher. The purpose of the material is to allow these advanced topics to be taught in the upper grades of high school. This way, mancala provides an early entry to a specialized research field, something for which board games appear uniquely suited.