Yote Description
Yoté is a traditional strategy board game of West Africa, where it is a popular gambling game due to its fast pace and surprising turnarounds. A player wins by capturing all opposing pieces.
The game is played on a 5×6 board, which is empty at the beginning of the game. Each player has twelve pieces in hand. Players alternate turns, with White moving first. In a move, a player may either:
- Place a piece in hand on any empty cell of the board.
- Move one of their pieces already on the board orthogonally to an empty adjacent cell.
- Capture an opponent's piece if it is orthogonally adjacent to a player's piece, by jumping to the empty cell immediately beyond it. The captured piece is removed from the board, and the capturing player removes another of the opponent's pieces of his choosing from the board.
The player who captures all the opponent's pieces is the winner. The game can end in a draw if both players are left with three or fewer pieces.
The game is played on a 5×6 board, which is empty at the beginning of the game. Each player has twelve pieces in hand. Players alternate turns, with White moving first. In a move, a player may either:
- Place a piece in hand on any empty cell of the board.
- Move one of their pieces already on the board orthogonally to an empty adjacent cell.
- Capture an opponent's piece if it is orthogonally adjacent to a player's piece, by jumping to the empty cell immediately beyond it. The captured piece is removed from the board, and the capturing player removes another of the opponent's pieces of his choosing from the board.
The player who captures all the opponent's pieces is the winner. The game can end in a draw if both players are left with three or fewer pieces.
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