Monkey Queen is a two player game, played on a 12x12 checkboard. The board is initially set up with two queens - one stack of 20 ivory colored checkers and another of cigar.

PLAY: The two players, Ivory and Cigar, take turns moving stacks of their own color (including singletons - stacks of height one), one stack per turn, starting with Ivory. Players will always have a move available and must make one.

OBJECT OF THE GAME: Kill the enemy queen (the true stack of height > 1), or deprive your opponent of moves.

The pie rule is used in Monkey Queen. Black has the option of claiming White's first move as his own, swapping colors.

A draw cannot occur in Monkey Queen.

Please see Mark's page on Monkey Queen or the included "MonkeyQueen_Rules.pdf" for the complete set of rules.

Note: A free stand-alone version of Monkey Queen can be downloaded from: http://www.marksteeregames.com