Pong-hau-ki

A game that originated in China and also played in korea. It is not as easy as the simple board suggests.

Age :  from 7 years

Approxiamate time :  10 minutes

Players  :  2

Materials :  paper, a pencil, 2 purple counters, 2 yellow counters.

1. Draw a board on the paper, and place the counters on it, as in the illustration .

 

 

    2.   The players take turns to move one of their counters to a free space, following one on the lines.

    3.  The winner is the player who manages to block both of his  or her opponent's counters so that he or she cannot move either of them into the free space.

( Pong Hau K'i is an ancient Chinese tic-tac-toe-like game involving two players with two differently colored stones (say, red and blue). The players move their respective stones along a line to an adjacent empty space on a board consisting of five nodes and seven edges, illustrated above. The objective of the game is to trap the opponent so that no possible moves are available. )

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