The board is empty in the beginning and it has 24 positions where the players can place their pieces/stones, each player has nine pieces/stones and they alternatively place the stones in a position of their choice.
The goal for the player is to have a 'mill', which means three pieces in vertical or horizontal line.
The game has 3 parts:
- Placing stones.
placing stones one by one.
While placing, if a players formed a mill he can remove a stone of the opposite player.
- Moving stones.
After placing all the stones, players can move their stones in the neighbor free spots.
- Flying/Jumping.
Once a player has only three stones left, he can move his stone to any other free spot.
The game ends in one of these situations :
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If one of the players has less than three stones left.
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If one of the players is stuck and can't move any of his stones.
There is an exception according to the second part of the game, once you formed a mill, you can't remove a stone of the opposite player if that stone is in a mill (previously created), but if all the stones of the opposite players are part of mills then you can.