Fundex Games 5392, Backgammon manual COVER Players, MANCALA Players, PACHISI Players

each other. No player can refuse to move out of his starting triangle to prevent another player from winning.

Winner: The first player to successfully move all of his marbles into the opposite triangle wins the game.

COVER 21

Players: 2

Equipment: “Cover 21” Game Board, 2 Dice, 15 Red Disks, 15 Black Disks

Object: Be the player with the most pieces on the board when all 21 spaces have been covered.

Play: Player with the black disks rolls first. A disk is placed over the combination that the player rolls. Players alternate rolls, placing disks according to their combination that was rolled. Only one marker can be placed per combination rolled. Once all the 21 spaces have been covered, the player with the most markers placed on the board is the winner.

MANCALA

Players: 2

Equipment: 1 Mancala Board, 48 small colored beads

Object: Be the player with the most beads in your Mancala.

Set-up:Place four beads in each of the bins numbered one

(1) through twelve (12) as shown in the diagram below.

Play: Player A’s bins are those numbered 1-6. Player B’s bins are those numbered 7-12. Decide which player will play first by the flip of a coin. The first player then picks up all of the beads in one of the bins on her side of the board. [For example, Player “A” would pick up the beads in any of the bins numbered 1-6.] The player then proceeds by placing one bead at a time in each of the bins counter-clockwise around the board. If the last bead is placed in your Mancala then you play another turn. You never place a bead in your opponent’s Mancala, you skip it, placing the remaining bead(s) in the following bin(s). [For example, Player A picks up eight beads from bin 6, she then places a bead in her Mancala and then bins 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, but skips her opponent’s Mancala and places the remaining bead in bin 1.] If the last bead is placed in an empty bin on your side of the board, then you take all of the tokens in your opponent’s

bin directly opposite as well as the single bead placed in the empty bin, and place them in your Mancala. Players may not touch the beads to count them and once touching the beads, the player must play them.

Winning: Play ends when one player’s six bins are empty. The other player then places all remaining beads from her side of the board into her Mancala. Players then count the number of beads in their Mancalas. The player with the most beads is the winner.

PACHISI

Players: 2-4

Equipment: “Pachisi” Game Board, 16 Tokens (4 each red, blue, green, yellow) and pair of dice

Object: Be the first player to move all your tokens around the game board and into your “home.”

Set-up:Each player chooses four tokens of one color, which must be set out on the corresponding color circle (or flower shape) at each corner.

Play: No player moves a token until he has rolled a six (any combination of the dice that adds up to six). If a player does not roll a six, his turn is over and play is passed to the player to the left. The first player to throw a six takes one token from the corner circle/flower and places it on the corresponding color “start” area on the game board. In the next turn the player uses his roll to advance his token that number of squares clockwise around the path of the game board.

In each turn, players decide which of their four tokens to advance, according to how they choose to count the dice. The dice can be added together to advance one token, or counted individually to advance two tokens. A player can also use the count from one die and choose to ignore the other. Whenever a six is rolled the player can choose between getting another token out of it corner or advancing a token already in play. Whenever a player rolls doubles, he gains an extra turn. If a player rolls doubles three times in a roll, he is penalized and his token closest to “home” must return to the “start” circle.

When a player arrives on a square already occupied by an opponent, the opponent’s token is “captured” and must be returned to its colored circle/flower. In addition, the player that was the “capturer” is given a 10-space bonus. He may move any token forward 10 spaces. The bonus may not be split between two tokens.

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