ZigZag Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Contents
• Setting Up
• How to Play
• Strategy Tips

Contents

• 4 orange pegs, 4 green pegs
• 21 orange roads (7 long and 14 short)
• 21 green roads (7 long and 14 short)
• Game board with built-in trays

Setting Up

• Players choose a color and put their color roads in their trays, separating them according to length.
• Players place their color pegs on the board as shown in Figure 1.
• Small holes in the tray designate the starting position slots.

How to Play

1. Player 1 places one of her roads (long or short) at the base of one of her pegs and moves her peg over the road to the second hole. (See Figure 2)

2. Player 2 does the same. Players continue to take turns, laying roads and moving their pegs across them.

Players must follow these rules:

• A peg can only travel across its color roads.
• You can only place a new road next to a peg (see Figure 2) or next to a road of the same color (see Figure 3).
• Each time you place a road you must move a peg across it. However, you can move your peg without placing a new road, as long as you move the peg across an existing road already connected to the peg.
• If you use all of your roads, you may pick up and reposition one road already on the board.
• As more roads are built, you can zigzag between multiple holes, moving along several roads at a time as long as the roads are the same color as your peg. (See Figure 4)
• Players cannot jump over another peg — either their own or their opponent's.

3. Play continues until one player aligns her four pegs in a row! (See Figure 5)

Strategy Tips

Strategy Tip #1: Keep in mind not only your remaining pieces, but also your opponent's remaining pieces. Your opponent may not be able to use an empty hole if he or she doesn't have the correct length pieces.

Strategy Tip #2: Anytime a player has two of his pegs in a row, his opponent must beware because when the player gets three in a row it may be impossible to block his next winning move.