Yonmoque Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Components
• Game Play
• Placement and Moves
• Flips

Components

12 pieces are reversibly composed with two colors blue and white.

A 5 x 5 grid board is composed with eight blue, twelve white and five neutral tiles.

Number of Players: Two

Play time: 3 ~ 15 minutes

Starting position: There are no pieces on the board.

Object: Game goal is to place 4 pieces in a row - either horizontally, vertically or diagonally by moving your own piece.

Game Play

1. Decide who will play blue and who will play white.
2. Divide the 12 pieces evenly between the two players.
3. Blue always plays first.
4. There are no pieces on the board at the beginning of a game and the blue player starts by placing a piece anywhere on the board.
5. The white player then places a piece on the board.
6. On the blue player's second turn, he/she can either place another piece on the board or move their piece already on the board.
7. There is no rule regarding how many pieces a player must play. Of course, each player must PLACE at least one piece on the board.
8. A player who has made 5 in a row has lost. (Printed as "Payer has lost to make 5 in a row." — "Payer" is read as "Player", the typo corrected here.)
9. A player may only win by moving an existing piece to make 4 in a row. A player may place a piece on the board to create 4 in a row but this does not win the game.

Placement and Moves

There are only two things that a player can do on his turn. Place a piece on the board (if pieces are available) or move a piece that is already on the board.

Placement: On a player's turn, he may place an un-played piece on any unoccupied square.

Moves: On a player's turn, he may move any of his pieces that are on the board. Each piece may move one space in any direction (identical to a King in Chess). However, white pieces on white squares may move along the entire chain of white squares (like a Bishop in Chess). The same rule applies to the blue pieces on blue squares.

The symbol squares, at the center and on the corners, are neutral (neither blue nor white).

(The printed sheet shows two movement diagrams here, one for the king-style moves and one for the chain moves along white and blue squares.)

Flips

If a player moves a piece into a position that surrounds an opponent's pieces in a line (horizontally, vertically or diagonally), the opponent's pieces are then FLIPPED.

For example, the printed sheet shows a sequence of three positions. In the figure, if blue moves his piece as indicated by the arrow, then the two white pieces will be bounded on either side by blue pieces. Therefore, when blue makes the above move, the white pieces are flipped and they become blue. The final position shows four blue pieces in a row.

FLIPS only occur when a player makes a MOVE. A player may not cause an opponent's pieces to FLIP by PLACING a piece on the board.