Qawale
Qawale Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Contents
- 1 game board
- 8 light-colored pebbles
- 8 dark-colored pebbles
- 8 tan-colored pebbles
- rules
Aim of the Game
To make a line of 4 pebbles of your color: either horizontally, vertically or diagonally.
Setup
Place the game board in the middle of the table and stack 2 tan-colored pebbles in each corner. Each player takes 8 counters of one color (Fig. 1).
How to Play
Decide the first player at random.
On their turn, the player chooses a stack of pebbles and places a pebble of their color on top. You cannot place a pebble in an empty space (Fig. 2).
Note: A single pebble in a space is considered to be a stack.
The active player then takes that stack of pebbles and plays them, starting in an adjacent space. The player places down the pebbles one at a time, starting with the pebble at the bottom of the stack. Each pebble must be placed orthogonally adjacent to the previous one (Fig. 3a).
Note: You cannot go back over a space that you have just passed through (Fig. 3b). However, you can return to a particular space by circling back to it.
End of the Game
The first player to make a visible line of 4 pebbles of their color in a row, column or diagonal wins the game (Fig. 4).
Note: A counter is considered to be visible if it is the top or only pebble in a stack.
If both players have played all of their pebbles and no one has made a line, the game ends in a draw.
Note: A stack of 4 pebbles of the same color is not considered to be a line (Fig. 5).
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