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SeedSong
Full-depth Oware (mancala / awari) for tweens — sow your seeds counterclockwise, count where the last one lands, and capture when it makes an enemy pit two or three. A count-and-capture classic from the West-African sowing-game tradition — every move is counting.
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Every Spark & Anvil app has a friendly mentor character that demonstrates, praises, and patiently scaffolds learning. On-device AI personalizes the mentor's responses to your kid's progress — never connecting to a server, never collecting data.
Mentored by Nana the Sowing Elder
#4f9d3f Distributed-narrative cast
Meet the cast
Sower Sefu
Sowing: pick up a pit and drop exactly one seed in each pit counterclockwise
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Count Kesi
Counting / subitizing: read how many seeds a pit holds at a glance
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Capture Koro
Capturing: when the last seed makes an enemy pit two or three, sweep it
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Reap Rafiki
Multi-capture chain: read a run of 2s and 3s backward and reap them all
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Subitize Sisi
Look-ahead arithmetic: compute the landing pit without sowing it out
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Lapwing Lulu
Lapping: sow a full loop around the board (skipping the start pit)
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Store-Keeper Kito
The store (kroo) + win count: bank seeds safely; the store count is the win
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Starve-Guard Nne
The must-feed rule: when the opponent has no seeds, you must give them some
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Pitkeeper Pemba
Building a threat: load a pit to reach a target pit exactly
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Doublesow Dembe
Staging / relay: stage seeds across turns to set up a big sweep
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Seedling Sanaa
Opening patterns: the first-move sowing plan
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Endgame Enzi
Endgame count-out: force the last seeds; parity and counting to the win
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Nana Sowing Elder
The sowing elder (mentor): poses which-sow-captures puzzles; credits the tradition warmly
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What's inside
Learning goal
Full-depth Oware (mancala / awari) for tweens — sow your seeds counterclockwise, count where the last one lands, and capture when it makes an enemy pit two or three. A count-and-capture classic from the West-African sowing-game tradition — every move is counting.
Question kits
16 curriculum-aligned kits × 25 questions = 400 questions per app, mapped to recognized standards.
On-device AI mentor
FoundationModels-powered hints, feedback, and adaptive difficulty — all running locally.
Mentored by Nana the Sowing Elder — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How SeedSong handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ No ads, no in-app purchases — you pay once
- ✅ COPPA compliant under the 2026 FTC amendments
- ✅ Parental controls + session limits + content filters built in
SeedSong runs on ForgeKit — the open-source Swift Package Manager framework that powers every Spark & Anvil app. ForgeKit ensures consistent accessibility, COPPA compliance, and design language across the portfolio, so your kid's progress and preferences feel coherent across every app they touch.
Coming to the App Store
SeedSong is in active development. Email us to hear when it ships — no marketing, no spam, just a one-shot launch announcement.
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