Yoté

Rules

• 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.

Optional rules

• Captures are never mandatory.
• Multiple successive jumps by a piece in a single turn are permitted. After a multi-jump, the player chooses and removes from the board one piece of the opponent for each piece jumped.
• Capturing entitles the capturing player to a bonus turn.
• A player can jump one of their own pieces; the piece jumped remains.
• If both players are left with three or fewer pieces, the game immediately ends in a draw.
• If a player to move has no move available, the game ends and the player with the greater number of pieces remaining is the winner.