The object of the game is to reach the Home Square with any one of your 4 counters.

Rules

To commence the game each player's counters are placed alternately on the first 8 Squares of the Way.

The players take it in turns to move. The player whose counter is on the eighth Square of the Way moves first.

In each move a player may do one of the following:

• Advance one counter along the Way to a vacant square provided it does not turn round more than one corner or overtake any other counter; or
• Move one counter in a straight line horizontally, vertically or diagonally to any square occupied by the superior counter of an opponent provided the path to the square is not blocked by any other counter. The opponent't counter is then removed from the board; or
• Re-enter a taken counter on any vacant square of the starting row.

If a player perceives the occurrence of a stalemate situation, he can offer his opponent 'Stalemate'. The opponent must then either accept the stalemate (in which case the game is drawn) or resolve the stalemate. (In this implementation, threefold repetition is a draw.)