Its as easy to learn as Chinese checkers, it's as vicious as croquet, it's as deep as Go and we thoroughly recommend it. The other strong element is speed - with up to half a dozen moves in one go, the game can change rapidly from a strong position to being in dire trouble.
Players get up to six moves a turn.
The pieces can either move individually or as part of a group - in a single move an opponent's pieces can be scattered to the corners of the board. As you get closer to winning, your opponent will get fewer moves, and so become less able to defend. Each player has one centrepiece, six strike pieces and six support pieces. The object of the game is to surround your opponent's centrepiece with your six strike pieces. For each strike piece a player gets adjacent to his opponent's centrepiece, his opponent will lose a move on his next turn.