Jin Li Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Components
• Setup
• Rules
• Alternate Rules

Components

A "Jin Li" set includes:

• A "Jin Li" 7x7 board (the pond).
• 2 red Koi and 2 yellow Koi.
• 20 stones.
• 1 red counter and 1 yellow counter (for scoring).

Setup

Place the board between the players. Each player takes 10 stones and 2 Koi and 1 counter of the same color (red or yellow).

Each player's Koi start in the corner squares closer to the player (indicated by small colored dots).

Rules

Determine the staring player.

Players take turns during the game moving their Koi.

On his turn, a player must do one of these two things:

• SWIM/DROP: A Koi SWIMS to an empty square adjacent (ortogonaly or diagonaly) to its current location. Then the player takes one of his stones and places it in any empty square on the board (DROP). If a player has run out of stones then he does not DROP after a SWIM.
• JUMP: A Koi jumps over one stone in an adjacent square (ortogonaly or diagonaly) and lands on the empty square just beyond the jumped stone. The jump must be along a straight line and the Koi can only jump over a single stone. When the JUMP has been completed the player does not DROP a stone.

After moving a Koi (and dropping a stone if applicable), the player scores one point for each other Koi adjacent to his Koi's new location. A player may score 1, 2, or 3 points on a turn. Use the counters and the scoring tracks to keep record of the points.

The first player to score 10 points wins.

Alternate Rules

• #1: Start the Koi one square diagonally inset from the corners.
• #2: Give each player 6 stones instead of 10.
• #3: Play to 15 points instead of 10.
• #4: After a player drops his last stone, the other player removes one stone from the board and gives it to that player to use next turn.