How to play
- Players
- 2 to 4 (the pieces are printed for four)
- To win
- 25 points
- You need
- the board, eight pieces for each player, a four-sided die, a coin, and a phone to time each move
Set up. Play on the red rows with 2 players, add the green rows for 3, and the blue row for 4. Each player takes their eight quarter-circle pieces. Toss a coin to see who starts.
Pieces. A piece fills one square and faces one of its four corners. Its pattern sets its points: crosshatched 1, dotted 2, plain 3, black 4.
A turn. Roll the die first. Then arrange one piece: add one of yours to an empty square, turn any piece on the board, yours or another player's, or remove one. A piece you add or turn goes round as many corners as the die shows; a 4 turns it full circle.
Three quarters. Three pieces in three of the four squares around one shared corner, each facing that corner, make a 3/4 circle. All three must have the same pattern. They can belong to anyone.
Remove. To remove a piece, place a piece with the same pattern on it and take both, without adding their points. A player can remove a piece only three times in a game.
Score. The player who completes the 3/4 circle takes its pieces off the board and scores their points. If one of them is on a yellow square, the score is doubled.
Keep the board. The player whose move empties the board loses 10 points.
Time. Each move has to be made in 20 seconds.
Win. The first player to 25 points wins.
Print it
Play in your browser or print the files below.
- The boardPDF, one page, 10 × 22 inches
- The piecesPDF, two pages, eight pieces for each of four players, to cut out
- The rulesAs above, with the six points the 2022 rules left open settled in October 2026
- The 2022 rulesThe first version, eight points, kept as written
- What the game is forWhy a warm-up, and what was still to be tested
- Open it in boardgameBuilderTo change the game block by block